Congratualtions! And some very minor bugs

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Yesterday I successfully compiled my first project with Clang, on Windows. First I replaced cl with clang-cl; this was straight forward. Then I used clang and it took me quite a while to figure out how I could build the dll. Maybe I will write a short guide for that for those cominf from MSVS on the next days if I have time. So I congratulate you for writing a compiler which just works with almost no effort on my part and at the same time wish some docs existed, not only for that, but for almost everything; what you get under the "User's Manual" link is even less than with >clang -help.

Ohter than the unsigned char problem I reported in my previous message, Clang failed to compile some points of inline asembly, viz. code wthin and __asm{ } block:

1. It does not understand the "short" keyword after a jump instruction, e.g.:

    jae short big_loop

    It seems it thinks "short", or "short big_loop" is the name of the label. Since I have very, very few asembly code I just removed the "short"'s.

2. The following line

    jmp main_loop ;if ecx[3] was 80 (80 is €)

    causes it to interpret the >127 char as wrong UTF-8 input. I suppose if I changed the ; that introduces the comment into // the problem would disappear. I don't know because I just saved the file as UTF-8.

3. error: Unable to lookup field reference!
        mov edi, [ebx].backPtr
                      ^

    The code is this:
        void do_towrite_uint(Buffer_to *buf,uint x){
    __asm{
      mov ebx, buf
      mov eax, x
      mov edi, [ebx].backPtr

    I suppose this is not a bug but intended unsupported feature. I don't know how I can fix this, so I just used the plain C version I have of that same function instead of the __asm{ } one.

An that's all.

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Maybe I will write a short guide for that for those cominf from MSVS on the next days if I have time.

Please do!

Check the *.rst files in clang/docs to see if there is anything
already started, if not, create a new document, write up how to use
clang on Windows and link from the index.rst (or relevant page).
Submit as a normal patch and once it's reviewed and committed, it'll
be automatically generated as an HTML page on the website.

Ohter than the unsigned char problem I reported in my previous message, Clang failed to compile some points of inline asembly, viz. code wthin and __asm{ } block:

Have you created bugs for those? It's a lot easier to follow the
progress of those things in bugs, than email.

Thanks!
--renato