add support for MSVC

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start with the user manual section that lists supported compilers and determine how compiler support is represented in the CodeQL queries and libraries. Define the MSVC compatibility scope, identify affected checks and tests, and document what passing MSVC coverage would mean before implementing changes.

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Description

are you planning to add support for MSVC compiler? The user manual only mentions clang, gcc and qcc.

Dominant language
CodeQL
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227
Forks
82
Avg merge
6d 7h
Merged PRs (30d)
9

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