+majnemer that implemented it in the first place.

> On Jul 17, 2015, at 4:45 AM, Aaron Ballman <aa...@aaronballman.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Bob Wilson <bob.wil...@apple.com> wrote:
>> Clang used to silently ignore __declspec(novtable) for all platforms, but it 
>> is now implemented for Windows. However, we don’t check if the target is 
>> Windows. This does not work when using the Itanium ABI, where the class 
>> layout for complex class hierarchies is stored in the vtable. Leaving the 
>> vtable uninitialized on non-Windows platforms does not work in that case. It 
>> might be possible to honor the novtable attribute in some simple cases and 
>> either report an error or ignore it in more complex situations, but it’s not 
>> clear if that would be worthwhile. There is also value in having a simple 
>> and predictable behavior, so I am proposed the attached patch which simply 
>> ignores novtable on non-Windows platforms.
> 
> MSVC supports an Itanium build target. What does __declspec(novtable)
> do there with the complex class layouts?
> 
> I don't have Visual Studio installed with support for Itanium,
> otherwise I would test this myself.
> 
> ~Aaron
> 
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