[cfe-dev] Clang on Windows targeting gcc requirements

Fri Jun 26 05:02:00 PDT 2015

It's quite possible that it's a bug on the MS side, although a strange one to have __EDG__ predefined in the main preprocessor if it's not the same as the intellisense one. 
It would be useful to know if the definition is still there in the VS2015 toolchain.
It has been too long since I dug into this and I have other things cooking at the moment so probably best if I leave it in Edward's capable hands.

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From: "Nikola Smiljanic" <popizdeh at gmail.com>
To: "mfaithfull at btopenworld.com" <mfaithfull at btopenworld.com>
Cc: "Sebastian Redl" <sebastian.redl at getdesigned.at>, "cfe-dev Developers" <cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: [cfe-dev] Clang on Windows targeting gcc requirements
Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 12:00

I'm pretty sure they only use EDG for IntelliSense, I'm still seeing code that compiles fine with VC++ and shows errors from IntelliSense. 
Once they decide to get a new frontend I'm sure they'll choose Clang :P

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:46 PM, mfaithfull at btopenworld.com <mfaithfull at btopenworld.com> wrote:

I looked into this ~18 months ago when I discovered that BoostPP disables variadic macros under the VS 2013 preprocessor even though compiler v120 officially supports them.
The combination of having both MSC_VER and __EDG__ defined was not correctly handled.
Given that __EDG__ is an automatic predefine on this compiler I guessed Microsoft had switched to EDG. They won't confirm it of course. The closest I could get was confirmation from MS that this compiler does have a new preprocessor front end and from EDG that they are supplying CPP front ends to Microsoft.
The end result is the same. I'm not sure that the VS CPP is as broken as it appears. Other than this bug I've had no trouble with BoostPP under MinGW clang or Visual Studio.

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From: "Sebastian Redl" <sebastian.redl at getdesigned.at>
To: <cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: [cfe-dev] Clang on Windows targeting gcc requirements
Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 10:32

On 26.06.2015 10:40,
mfaithfull at btopenworld.com wrote:

Interesting note on Boost PP. I'm not sure why
VC++ is still broken given that they have been using
EDG front end since 2013?

AFAIK they're not, only the IntelliSense system is. Where did you
hear this?

Sebastian

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