alt Hacker NewsI have no idea where you possibly got this idea from since the Github Issues tracker for GSL has numerous instances of new releases of MSVC breaking GSL compilation.
I have no idea where you possibly got this idea from since the Github Issues tracker for GSL has numerous instances of new releases of MSVC breaking GSL compilation.
I think they're saying that since they denote specific compiler versions as "officially supported", they can get away with saying the "UB" is not an issue in those versions only because they've already tested its behavior there, and anything else you compile with is untested and unsupported 'here be dragons' land.
You may wish they target every possible compiler brand and version, but they are free to disagree with you and only "support" specific ones.
Unfortunately this also has the same effect as the Linux kernel now in that it is no longer technically compliant with any C++ (or C) standard.