Doug Gregor wrote:
Thanks. I am a little surprised that como is not among requred compilers -- is seems to be pretty popular...
IIRC, we've had problems with compiler stability and linking that have prevented us from making Comeau a release compiler. If we can fix those and get a good pass rate, we can make it a release compiler.
There are problems with Comeau on Windows. One problem is that Comeau does not fully support dynamic libraries, and the other that it is not obvious what "standard conformity level" should be selected for this compiler (ie. non-strict, strict warnings --a or strict --A). Compiler running in non-strict accepts OS headers, but then it is also least portable (it emulates bugs specific to other compilers on this platform). Hopefully next version will have better support for shared libraries and will accept OS headers in strict mode. I do not know if these issues apply to other platforms. It would be nice to support Comeau in strict (or strict warnings) mode on at least one combination platform + backend C compiler. B.