On Jun 30, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Alp Toker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 01/07/2014 01:28, Saleem Abdulrasool wrote:
>> On Jun 30, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Alp Toker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 23/06/2014 23:02, Reid Kleckner wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Alp Toker <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>    Please split out and name the new dotted form something like
>>>>    "-msc-full-version" to avoid ambiguity.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I was inclinded to overload the option because it means we don't have to 
>>>> diagnose this case: -fmsc-version -fmsc-full-version=17.00.0.  We just do 
>>>> the obvious thing of "last one always wins".  Diagnosing the conflict 
>>>> isn't too hard, though, so let's just split the options and do exactly 
>>>> that in the driver.
>>> Saleem,
>>> 
>>> Do you plan to make that change? If not I guess I can look into it..
>> Yes, I was waiting for a response to my last message about what we want to 
>> call the option.
> 
> The proposal was -msc-full-version because it aligns at least a little with 
> the documentation on MSDN.
> 
>> 
>>> The reason is that this blocks some other fixes I have related to -msc-ver 
>>> and the diagnostic engine.
>> Ill call it -fmsc-version-ex then for now and we can bike shed it later if 
>> we want.
> 
> What does -ex signify? Not familiar with that naming scheme.

Extended.  Its a play off of Windows API naming conventions :-).

> Anyway, it seems best to go with the working name -msc-full-version unless 
> something better comes along.

Except that this would also define _MSC_VER so it is slightly misleading.

> Alp.
> 
>> 
>>>>        Due to
>>>>        bitwidth limitations of the option, it is currently not
>>>>        possible to define a
>>>>        revision value.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>    What would be the practical burden of encoding this as 64-bits, or
>>>>    two 32-bit fields (one representing _MSC_BUILD and another for the
>>>>    rest)?
>>>> 
>>>>    Or is there a different plan to resolve the 32-bit encoding FIXMEs
>>>>    introduced in the commit? I suspect that getting the
>>>>    representation right will simplify computations below for free.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> LangOptions are defined as unsigned bitfields, so we can't widen the full 
>>>> version number to 64 bits without some disruptive changes.  Lots of 
>>>> LangOpts shouldn't even be bitfields, for example.  If we supported that, 
>>>> we could easily make the full version a 64-bit int.  Failing that, we 
>>>> could split the build number into it's own option.
>>> Yeah, that could work. I actually think the optimal representation may 
>>> involve two separate 32-bit fields, because that's the boundary at which 
>>> the Microsoft documentation and cl.exe appear to make the split. Will 
>>> investigate both options if Saleem isn't already on the case.
>>> 
>>> Alp.
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