[llvm-dev] [tablegen] table readability / performance

[Luke Drummond via llvm-dev]

On Wed Jan 15, 2020 at 6:58 PM, Reid Kleckner wrote:
> Does the same limitation exist in VS 2017? I think that's our support
> floor
> these days:
> https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#host-c-toolchain-both-compiler-and-standard-library
>
It appears that all releases including the latest 2019 are affected.
>
> One *could* make the tablegen behavior conditional on the compiler, and
> generate the character arrays for VS, and strings for other compilers.
> It
> has the potential to create MSVC only issues, but it seems harmless
> enough...
I can't see any current `#ifdef _MSCV_VER` usage in tablegen but I'm happy to
besmirch it for this.
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