Please explain in detail how alternatives would have worked better for GCC and CUDA. Also, if you could share some historical context about how those alternatives could realistically have been implemented at the time, that would be helpful too.
I love to hear all the "would've" and "should've" scenarios.
To be fair, MSVC has the most C99 stuffs. What is mainly missing for porting (my) programs is the native complex number. But we have Intel compiler for free on Windows, which is fully compatible with the C/C++ standard and produces faster binaries.
The C++ frontend of MSVC handles (the common) compiler-specific language extensions differently than the other compilers. Besides, its pre-processor behaves differently too. It is now good that there is a clang frontend for MSVC.
deeznuttynutz|6 months ago
Please explain in detail how alternatives would have worked better for GCC and CUDA. Also, if you could share some historical context about how those alternatives could realistically have been implemented at the time, that would be helpful too.
I love to hear all the "would've" and "should've" scenarios.
j16sdiz|6 months ago
drwu|6 months ago
The C++ frontend of MSVC handles (the common) compiler-specific language extensions differently than the other compilers. Besides, its pre-processor behaves differently too. It is now good that there is a clang frontend for MSVC.