[LLVMdev] LLVM built on VS C++ 2005

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Aaron Gray wrote:
>> That is why it is difficult to justify supporting Whidbey.  This bug may 
>> have been easy to work around.  The next one may not be so easy. Remember, 
>> if Whidbey wasn't buggy and incomplete, you'd be paying around $1000 for it 
>> instead of downloading it for free.
>
> Too earger to get LLVM running. Really I should have checked things out 
> deeper. I thought Whidbey would really be upto the job, obviously not.
>
> I have ordered a copy of Visual Studio 2003 now anyway so can work with that.
>
> The CVS changes may probably want rolling back ?

Aaron, don't worry about it, there is no confusion.  We occasionally have 
to work around bugs in other compilers (including VC7.1), so this sort of 
patch is no different.  As long as the changes required to get Whidbey 
working do not adversely affect other users/compilers, I don't have any 
problem with them.  Again, thanks for the patch!

The one thing to watch out for though is that other uses of abort will 
probably creep into the compiler over time, so we might accidentally break 
Whidbey support.  Jeff has experienced this with VC7.1 support getting 
minorly broken from time to time as well.

-Chris

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