Re: [win-pv-devel] Request to add back support for VS2012

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: win-pv-devel [mailto:win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Andreas Kinzler
> Sent: 19 April 2019 11:52
> To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [win-pv-devel] Request to add back support for VS2012
> 
> Hallo Paul + Owen,
> 
> please add back support for VS2012. If you google for "visual studio
> 2017 code generation bug" you'll find an overwhelming number of reports
> that talk about severe code generation (invalid code) problems. This is
> due to a new optimizer (see
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/author/gratilupms/). VS2012 has
> the old mature compiler.

But AFAIK it is well out of support. Does VS2015 not work for you?

  Paul

> 
> You can also take a look at the release notes of VS2017 and you'll find
> a lot of code generation bugs listed there too.
> 
> Regards Andreas
> 
> 
> 
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