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80x25 on Dec 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1

I think this means that the VS toolchain now has a modern C compiler front-end. The VS C++ compiler has seen good progress as of late, but the VS C compiler was seriously lagging, only supporting bits and pieces of C99(!).

jheriko on Dec 5, 2015 [–]

yes, not having proper c99 has been a pain for a very long time right up to VS 2015

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