OT: clang guys postet MSVC compatibility info

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Sun Mar 2 21:53:24 PST 2014


On 02.03.2014 18:34, Remo wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 16:56:37 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> OMG! Do want! :)
>> Can't wait for an LDC with this backend!
>> We'll finally have a performance compiler in windows, and 32bit support
>> too! :)
>>
>> Still missing the exception handler though by the looks of it.
>>
>>
>> On 2 March 2014 19:47, dennis luehring <dl.soluz at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html
>
> Yes this is great, but apparently will need some time to be really usable.
>
> Do you mean 64bit support ?
> On OSX 32bit is already dead and on Windows it is in progress.
> Some applications are only available as 64bit builds.
>
> Clang is only for C languages ( C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++)
> the probability that one of "Microsoft Language" will be supporter is
> very very low.
> This also makes no sense. The only one the are in common with C is C#
> but it is managed language. Clang is all about native code gen.
>

Except the Xamarin guys use LLVM for a native C# compiler. Don't mix 
languages with implementations.

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Paulo


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