[LLVMdev] Do we still need LLVM_HAS_INITIALIZER_LISTS?

[Aaron Ballman]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:30 PM, David Majnemer
<david.majnemer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Justin Bogner <mail at justinbogner.com>
> wrote:
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>> Currently, LLVM_HAS_INITIALIZER_LISTS is set based on
>>
>>   __has_feature(cxx_generalized_initializers) && !defined(_MSC_VER)
>>
>> Based on the docs, we should be able to drop the _MSC_VER check now that
>> we've moved to VS2013. Can somebody confirm that?
>>
>
> MSDN claims that VS2013 supports braced initializer list syntax:
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn387583.aspx
>
>>
>> The other problem is that GCC doesn't recognize __has_feature, so this
>> is essentially only enabled for clang. If we're keeping this check it
>> should really check the GCC version as well - they've had these for
>> quite a while now.

I think we're safe to use it. I've made an experimental commit in
r229502 to see if any of the bots complain, and will revert if they
do. Otherwise, I think we're good to go.

~Aaron