In the gcc precompiled header model, one explicitly runs clang with -x c++-header on a .h file to produce a gch file, and then includes the header with -include foo.h and if a .gch file exists for that header it gets used. This is documented at http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#precompiled-headers
cl.exe's model is fairly different, and controlled by the two flags /Yc and /Yu. A pch file is generated as a side effect of a regular compilation when /Ycheader.h is passed. While the compilation is running, the compiler keeps track of #include lines in the main translation unit and writes everything up to an #include "header.h" line into a pch file. Conversely, /Yuheader.h tells the compiler to skip all code in the main TU up to and including #include "header.h" and instead load header.pch. (It's also possible to use /Yc and /Yu without an argument, in that case a #pragma hrdstop takes the role of controlling the point where pch ends and real code begins.)
This patch implements limited support for this in that it requires the pch header to be passed as a /FI force include flag – with this restriction, support for this can be implemented almost completely in the driver with fairly small amounts of code. For /Yu, this is trivial, and for /Yc a separate pch action is added that runs before the actual compilation. After r261774, the first failing command makes a compilation stop – this means if the pch fails to build, the main compilation won't run, which is what we want. However, in /fallback builds we need to run the main compilation even if the pch build fails, so that the main compilation's fallback can run. To achieve this, add a ForceSuccessCommand that pretends that the pch build always succeeded in /fallback builds (the main compilation will then fail to open the pch and run the fallback cl.exe invocation).
If /Yc /Yu are used in a setup that clang-cl doesn't implement yet, clang-cl will now emit a "not implemented yet, ignoring flag" warning that can be disabled by -Wno-clang-cl-pch.
Since clang-cl doesn't yet serialize some important things (most notably pragma comment(lib, ...), this feature is disabled by default and only enabled by an internal driver flag. Once it's more stable, this internal flag will disappear.
(The default stdafx.h setup passes stdafx.h as explicit argument to /Yc but not as /FI – instead every single TU has to #include <stdafx.h> as first thing it does. Implementing support for this should be possible with the approach in this patch with minimal frontend changes by passing a --stop-at / --start-at flag from the driver to the frontend. This is left for a follow-up. I don't think we ever want to support #pragma hdrstop, and supporting it with this approach isn't easy: This approach relies on the driver knowing the pch filename in advance, and #pragma hdrstop(out.pch) can set the output filename, so the driver can't know about it in advance.)
clang-cl now also honors /Fp and puts pch files in the same spot that cl.exe would put them, but the pch file format is of course incompatible. This has ramifications on /fallback, so /Yc /Yu aren't passed through to cl.exe in /fallback builds.
nit: I think it's more common in Clang's warnings to say "ignored" than "ignoring", and "flag ignored" saves one character :-)
Also I would have gone for a semicolon instead of comma, but this is not important.
Maybe "input" is redundant in "more than one input source file"?
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