MSVC now correctly reports __cplusplus
The MSVC compiler’s definition of the __cplusplus predefined macro leaps ahead 20 years in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 3. This macro has stubbornly remained at the value “199711L”, indicating (erroneously!) that the compiler conformed to the C++98 Standard. Now that our conformance catch-up work is drawing to a close we’re updating the __cplusplus macro to reflect the true state of our implementation. The value of the __cplusplus macro doesn’t imply that we no longer have any conformance bugs. It’s just that the new value is much more accurate than always reporting “199711L”.
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