Am 10.12.15 um 09:36 schrieb Gert Doering: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 11:05:06PM +0100, Gisle Vanem wrote: >> While compiling src/openvpn/options.c with MSVC 2015, I got this >> error: >> src/openvpn/options.c(5944): fatal error C1026: parser stack overflow, >> program too complex >> >> I've also seen such error in GeoIP-lib due to all the 'if..else if' >> statements. >> Can this be written using some kind of a table-lookup code instead? > We could, certainly, if we had nothing else to do. > > For the time being we just use a compiler that is not mainly a pain in the > back, solidly stuck in the last century before C99 - as in, none of the > core developers compile on windows, we all do cross-compilation with > mingw64 on Linux. > Or use the experimental Clang frontend for MSVC codegen
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/12/04/introducing-clang-with-microsoft-codegen-in-vs-2015-update-1.aspx As Gert said, that code is old, reliable and well tested. And just about quirky enough that it is no straighforward table-lookup code conversion. Arne
