Re: Whither windows-msvc

[Po Lu]

John Ericson <list@JohnEricson.me> writes:

> I challenge you to find me a public project where this `winnt` is still in 
> use.

Why is that of such importance?  That it was used in the past is reason
enough to retain it.

> Yes Clang does define it, see
> https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#microsoft-extensions. If
> it didn't, Clang would be failing in its goal to compile software
> written for Microsoft's tools with as few modifications as possible.

So it is *-*-winnt.

> I have proposed a way to turn those follies into non-follies, which
> would also help with this, and do so without breaking backwards
> compatibility. I don't think config.sub ever made any formal
> guarantees about what its output would look like anyways. I don't
> think I have any more to say on this part.

I recall several commitments of this nature being made here, within this
thread, in the past month alone.