Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer

Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by mrich on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:34PM (#11639062)

Thumbs up to Microsoft for investing that much into their C/C++ toolchain.

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Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by jjawssd on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:19PM (#11639362)

I believe it is just a C++ toolchain and the C part is neglected. Has something changed?

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Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by cremno on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:34PM (#11639471)

Since VS2013 some useful and popular C99 language features are supported. And then there's Clang/C2 but it can't be used via command-line yet.

Their standard library (besides being intentionally not fully compliant) is missing some C11 features though. I guess we have to wait at least for C++17:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p006...

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Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by xvilka on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:08PM (#11639678)

Not all of them, and today is 2016, important C11 feature, like _Generic still not supported. And it would be awesome, if MSVC will support GNU extensions, like Clang does. For now I recommend to use clang-cl wrapper: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html

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Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by pjmlp on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:13AM (#11642452)

For Visual C++ only to the extent as required by the C++ standard.

Clang/C2 is exactly the path for those that still care about C on Windows.

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Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by terrymah on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:50PM (#11639567)

This is both C and C++ - they share a common backend (c2.dll) where this work was done. They have different front ends (c1.dll / c1xx.dll).

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