In what ways is MSVC not standards-compilant?

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Published on 2010-04-18T17:03:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 19:53 UTC
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I read that MSVC is not fully compilant to the ISO C++ standard (German Wikipedia and several Tech sites).

In which ways isn't C++ standards compilant?

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