I stumbled over this when trying to upgrade the version of HarfBuzz used by
LibreOffice to 3.2.1 (see <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/gitiles/core/
+/b7ddc514bff9bdf682abae537f990aa01dc2c0fb%5E!/> "Upgrade to latest
HarfBuzz 2.3.1"), where building with MSVC 2017 failed like
> c:\cygwin\home\tdf\lode\jenkins\workspace\gerrit_windows\workdir\unpackedtarball\harfbuzz\src\hb-atomic.hh(272): error C2440: 'reinterpret_cast': cannot convert from 'const int *' to 'std::atomic<int> *'
> c:\cygwin\home\tdf\lode\jenkins\workspace\gerrit_windows\workdir\unpackedtarball\harfbuzz\src\hb-atomic.hh(272): note: Conversion loses qualifiers
> c:\cygwin\home\tdf\lode\jenkins\workspace\gerrit_windows\workdir\unpackedtarball\harfbuzz\src\hb-atomic.hh(272): error C2227: left of '->load' must point to class/struct/union/generic type
(see <https://ci.libreoffice.org/job/gerrit_windows/29916/>).
I added all the necessary "const" to make building of HarfBuzz 2.3.1 with
MSVC 2017 succeed for me. There may be more missing at least conceptually.
Some clang versions define static_assert as a macro apparently, so we cannot
redefine it...
This reverts commit 94bfea0ce6.
This reverts commit 4e62627831.
Behdad Esfahbod
Stephan Bergmann
Behdad Esfahbod
Martin
prrace
Ebrahim Byagowi
Ken Brown