On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Douglas Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Francois Pichet wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Bob Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Francois,
>>>
>>> I just noticed this change:
>>>
>>> r140009 | fpichet | 2011-09-18 22:15:54 -0700 (Sun, 18 Sep 2011) | 1 line
>>>
>>> Do not use builtin includes if -fms-compatibility is specified. Some MSVC 
>>> header files have the same name as clang's builtins, this creates clash.
>>>
>>> Are you sure this is the right thing to do?  If none of the clang-specific 
>>> header files are available, that means that things like the AVX/SSE 
>>> intrinsics will not be available.  What about clang's version of tgmath.h?  
>>> Etc.  What MSVC header files caused a clash and what was the problem with 
>>> that clash?
>>>
>> The problem is:
>> using clang compiled with MSVC 2010
>> given test.cpp:
>> #include <vector>
>>
>> C:\dev\llvm\test>clang test5.cpp
>> In file included from test5.cpp:1:
>> In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> 10.0\VC\inc
>> lude\vector:6:
>> In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> 10.0\VC\inc
>> lude\memory:987:
>> In file included from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> 10.0\VC\inc
>> lude\intrin.h:26:
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> 10.0\VC\include\ammintrin.h:222:1
>> : error:
>>      unknown type name '__m256'
>> __m256 _mm256_macc_ps(__m256, __m256, __m256);
>> ^
>> a flooding of errors
>>
>> That is because ammintrin.h includes some headers existing on MSVC and
>> clang include's builtins directory. When compiling MSVC headers you
>> really want clang to pick the MSVC headers otherwise it won't work.
>
> We typically want to use Clang's definitions because we can make sure that 
> work well with Clang. If it's just additional definitions you're missing, 
> they could either be added to Clang or you could use the #include_next 
> mechanism.
>

I don't understand why you would want to use clang definition instead
of the MSVC one when -fms-compatibility is on. They are not necessary
equivalent. My idea of -fms-compatibility is for clang.exe to see
exactly the same stream of tokens as cl.exe would see when compiling
MSVC code on Windows.

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