Mats Wichmann

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I don't use a Mac at all, so probably need to leave a lot of this to someone else. One of the messages in the issue you pointed to suggested...

This is some decent reading on the topic, though of course it has a Gentoo flavor: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/GNU_stack_quickstart

It seems the section info stuff only works on a `.S` (uppercase) assembler source file which will be preprocessed, not on a `.s` (lowercase). The test generates two lcase-s files...

Was just hunting around for this as well. The topic gets a fair bit of discussion in #2115.

Just as a "note to ourselves" - this failure isn't a surprise, as things are currently constituted. vswhere only gives us the top level information - the Visual Studio version...

Just going to dump some research data here. On a setup with Build Tools 19 installed, we start with the 14.26 compiler. Used the setup tool to add 14.25 and...

Okay, I have a simple enough bit of code which detects the msvc versions installed under a given product, but the structure of `vc.py` is such that that information isn't...

Might be a bit... trying to think about how to set this up.

After stepping through the logic in `vc.py`, it looks theoretically possible that if you have a batch file which sets up the environment correctly for the compiler you want to...

We might want to resurrect the MSVS_VERSION var, which was deprecated (right now forced to be the same as MSVC_VERSION).