[LLVMdev] Visual C++ Toolkit

[Chris Lattner]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Eugene Talagrand wrote:

> Hi,
> Have you tried the new VC8 Beta? It's been out for less than 2 weeks:
> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/default.aspx
>
> It's supposed to have improved standards compliance.

Yes, this is the "Whidbey beta" I was referring to.  It still has issues,
e.g., it can't compile:

for (...; PHINode *PN = dyn_cast<PHINode>(I); ...)

It is *MUCH* closer than VC7.1.

-Chris

>
>
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Chris Lattner wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 01:56:03 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: Chris Lattner <sabre at nondot.org>
> > Reply-To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> > To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Visual C++ Toolkit
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > > Sorry, but it is not even close to working (its template and STL support
> > > > is horribly lacking).  The Visual Studio "Whidbey"  compiler, now in beta,
> > > > will handle it though with only a reasonable amount of tweaking to the
> > > > LLVM sources.  I have no idea about when Microsoft intends to release it
> > > > though, but I would guess that it will be sometime soon.  Google can
> > > > probably tell you :)
> > >
> > > Chris, I think you're wrong. The above link is GUI-less version of VC7.1, and
> > > it's template support has being hugely improved since VC7.
> >
> > I have not tried the above link, but I have tried the official VC7.1
> > product.  It croaked on the first partial specialization of a template it
> > saw in an LLVM header file.  :(
> >
> > -Chris
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-Chris

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