[cmake-developers] Add CXX_STANDARD support for Intel C++ compilers

[Levi Morrison]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 12/02/2015 10:31 AM, Levi Morrison wrote:
>> Hmm. What is the purpose of this module? I verified that indeed my
>> changeset somehow breaks this test but I don't even understand what it
>> is trying to do. At a glance it looks like even *more* duplication of
>> feature detection. Please tell me I'm wrong.
>
> It re-uses the Modules/Compiler/<id>-<lang>-FeatureTests.cmake information
> to generate a header file that projects can include to check for the
> availability of features.  The header can then be installed and re-used
> by clients of such projects even if they do not use CMake.
>
> The test checks that those results are consistent with the features detected
> by CMake.
>
> -Brad
>

Brad, here it is a year later and thought I would get around to
finishing this work. Then I discovered you had already completed it!
Thank you so much!

I now have access to the 2017 Intel C++ compiler; is there anything in
particular you'd like me to check with it?