Kyle Brady

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Standards conformance improvements to /Gw in Visual Studio version 17.5 Preview 2

The /Gw switch enables the linker to optimize global data to reduce binary size. As part of the 17.5 Preview 2 release a new flag, , has been added to improve C++ standards conformance when using . Previously, when using , certain One Definition Rule (ODR) violations were being ignored and would not cause an error. The new flag ensures that we...