[llvm-dev] [compiler-rt] r249514 - builtins: emulate _Complex for cl

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 12:36:37AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:58:07AM -0000, Saleem Abdulrasool via llvm-commits wrote:
> > Author: compnerd
> > Date: Tue Oct  6 21:58:07 2015
> > New Revision: 249514
> > 
> > URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=249514&view=rev
> > Log:
> > builtins: emulate _Complex for cl
> > 
> > cl does not support C99 completely as of VS2015.  Emulate _Complex to allow
> > building with MSVC.
> > 
> > Patch by Tee Hao Wei!
> 
> Going back to this, I would like to see this reverted and stop us
> pretending that we care about a compiler that doesn't even support C99.
> The standard is 25 years old, get real. I see absolutely no reason why
> we have to add hacks for such basic language features as complex.

Well, 15 years. Typo :) But still.

Joerg