Prior to commit v3.4.0-rc1~71^2 (Project: Determine default language
dialect for the compiler, 2015-09-15) we always guessed the default
language standard dialect based on the compiler version. This was not
reliable so that commit switched to computing the default language
standard dialect while detecting the compiler id.
When a toolchain file uses CMakeForceCompiler to set the compiler id
then the detection does not occur. Therefore commit v3.4.0-rc1~54^2
(Project: Don't require computed default dialect if compiler was forced,
2015-09-22) made the lack of detection an error only if the compiler was
not forced. However, this means that projects using CMakeForceCompiler
no longer even get the guess that we had before so <LANG>_COMPILER does
not work.
Due to the sophistication of CMake's compiler detection logic projects
should be ported away from using CMakeForceCompiler. In the meantime,
restore a guess of the default language standard dialect when the
compiler is forced.
Commit 7235334a (Project: Determine default language dialect for the
compiler., 2015-09-15) introduced a mechanism to determine the default
dialect used for the running compiler. If conditions in
the <CompilerId>-<Lang>.cmake file are such that compile features for
that version of the compiler should be supported, the _DEFAULT_STANDARD
is set to the computed value.
However, the CMakeForceCompiler module allows users to bypass execution of the
compiler by CMake. In that case, do not set the _DEFAULT_STANDARD variable at
all, which effectively disables the compile-features where the module is used.
No compile features have ever been recorded where the module is used so no
functionality is lost.
If no compiler feature information is known for a given compiler
version, do not set a language standard default either. The two
settings must be recorded consistently.
As this is not elseif(), the content has no effect.
Rather than changing it to an elseif(), remove the conditional content.
All versions of GNU prior to 5.0 default to C90/89.
Clang-C.cmake has a similar code block which correctly uses
elseif() for setting the default C dialect to C99. That may have
been updated from a C90 default at some point, so leave the
version condition there in place for now.
GNU-CXX already has complex logic and sets the _result to 0 before
tests which may set it to something else.
Change the other modules to be consistent with that.
Clang 3.4 uses C99 by default, and Clang 3.6 uses C11 by default:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/39379
GNU 4.9 uses C90 by default, and GNU 5.0 uses C11 by default:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html
Test that the default compiler settings result in the expected dialect
macros being defined for both C and CXX. Remove the unused main.c
file from the CompileFeatures unit test.
Add properties and variables corresponding to CXX equivalents.
Add features for c_function_prototypes (C90), c_restrict (C99),
c_variadic_macros (C99) and c_static_assert (C11). This feature
set can be extended later.
Add a <PREFIX>_RESTRICT symbol define to WriteCompilerDetectionHeader
to conditionally represent the c_restrict feature.
This moves GNU compiler flags into new-style modules
Compiler/GNU-<lang>.cmake
Platform/<os>-GNU-<lang>.cmake
We use language-independent helper modules
Compiler/GNU.cmake
Platform/<os>-GNU.cmake
to define macros consolidating the information.
This teaches CMake to detect implicit link information for C, C++, and
Fortran compilers. We detect the implicit linker search directories and
implicit linker options for UNIX-like environments using verbose output
from compiler front-ends. We store results in new variables called
CMAKE_<LANG>_IMPLICIT_LINK_LIBRARIES
CMAKE_<LANG>_IMPLICIT_LINK_DIRECTORIES
The implicit libraries can contain linker flags as well as library
names.
Brad King
Stephen Kelly