[Liblas-devel] /GR vs /EHsc

[Mateusz Łoskot]

Howard Butler pisze:
> 
> On Sep 26, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>>
>> I see we don't distinguish compilation flags for versions of Visual C++.
>> I think we should do the same what GDAL or GEOS does:
>>
>> nmake -f makefile.vc MSVC_VER=XXX
>>
>> where XXX is 1500, 1400, 1310, etc.
>>
>> For example, Visual C++ 7.1 uses /GX option which was replaced with 
>> /EHsc in later versions of the compiler.
> 
> 
> Mateusz,
> 
> I am ambivalent about this.  Even though /GX was replaced, latter 
> versions of the compiler respect it, correct?


Hobu,

Yes, /GX is equivalent to /EHsc

> The problem with MSVC_VER 
> is the ease at which someone can forget to specify it as part of the 
> compilation.  I don't like this particular approach of GDAL and 
> MapServer.  It's too easy to forget.  If we had lots of switches that 
> were version dependent, I could see a stronger need for it, but I don't 
> think we should do it for a single switch that is indefinitely supported 
> throughout the MSVC compiler chain.

OK, I agree with your reasoning.

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org