[cfe-dev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

[Aaron Ballman]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
> Chrome still ships with VS2010.  LLVM is only brought into Chrome via PNaCl,
> I think, but I don't think it's built with MSVC.  Maybe JF could say more.
>
> The initial release of 2012 had lots of miscompiles, most of which should've
> been fixed in update 1.  I think the story was the same for 2013.

This is the case for VS 2013 -- ToT currently has miscompiles that
cause thousands of testcase failures in my testing (and I've heard
others echo this).

That being said, I am happy with the direction being discussed, and
have no personal cause for complaint with the timeline. However, I do
say we need better build bot coverage for MSVC tracking than what we
have today, so hopefully that is part of the discussion when talking
about "supported" compiler versions.

~Aaron