Re: MSVC: MSVC needs a hint to force it to compile either as C or C++.

[Charles Wilson]

On 6/22/2010 7:54 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> But compile_tag is never set, so the patch is a NOP!
> 
> If that happens with a later patch in your series, please roll all
> the compile_tag machinery into a single commit.

But what if that later patch, in order to work correctly, also requires
additional prep work?  You're possibly opening up a spiderweb of
inter-dependencies between patches.

I could easily see a series of "nop" patches, each of which is small and
easily reviewed in isolation, but all of which are necessary for a
single, final "do it" patch.  You might be asking, in effect, for "do
it" + "all the nops" to be rolled together and presented at once -- in
a large, complex, difficult to review patch.

Peter has already split his mega patch into small, easily digestible
chunks with minimal inter-dependencies. Let's not second guess his
decomposition...

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Chuck