Re: Patches to enable MSVC compilation

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I don't think it make sense to continue submitting patches to
>> maintain MSVC compatibility. Though I'll probably continue to
>> maintain a patch for my own purpose. So if anybody wants
>> to compile octave with MSVC, you can still contact me (this
>> last sentence it just for reference, if anybody searches the mailing
>> list).
>>
>
> I 've been doing the same for Intel's C++ for Linux (and I can offer
> useful hints there too). I guess it only makes sense to include
> workarounds for bugs in GCC (given that it's part of GNU), and only in
> the newest one or two series.

BTW, one should *really* remove the README.MSVC file from
the source tree. It doesn't make sense to keep it.

Michael.