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Hi Guys, 

What version of the compiler do you ship.  It says it is version 13, but from what I've heard the latest compiler is version 7.1 or possibly 8.0.

Regards in advanced

Chris

 

 



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  • Frank Foerster

    That's a small piece of history . The Visual Studio IDE 2005 it's version 8.0 but the C/C++ compiler (and other related tools like the linker) predates the Visual Studio IDE so they have a higher version number. So you have:

    Visual Studio 2002 = VS 7.0  with C/C++ compiler 13.0

    Visual Studio 2003 = VS 7.1 with C/C++ compiler 13.1

    Visual Studio 2005 = VS 8.0 witch C/C++ compiler 14.0

     


  • mrabah

    Thanks - very interesting
  • Alewis

    You can go back in history even further than that:

    Compiler                           _MSC_VER value
    --------                           --------------
    C Compiler version 6.0                  600
    C/C++ compiler version 7.0              700
    Visual C++, Windows, version 1.0        800
    Visual C++, 32-bit, version 1.0         800
    Visual C++, Windows, version 2.0        900
    Visual C++, 32-bit, version 2.x         900
    Visual C++, 32-bit, version 4.0         1000
    Visual C++, 32-bit, version 5.0         1100
    Visual C++, 32-bit, version 6.0         1200

    from:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q65472

     


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