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Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by 0x09 on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:27PM (#8620317)
I don't use the MSVC toolchain or Windows for that matter, so I don't have a good compass for this, but the impression from the newsletter, dev meetings etc is that clang-cl is constantly being improved. Is the situation still that poor?
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Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by cremno on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:59PM (#8620528)
They have a site covering compatibility with MSVC: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html

I think it's pretty acceptable, if you're writing C. As you can see, C++ support is only partially completed (no exceptions!). But you're right, Clang on Windows gets constantly improved.

The creation of good debugging information (MSVC's /Zi or even /ZI option) is also missing. For a first class citizen, support of the (undocumented) PDB format is a requirement in my opinion.

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