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Merge topic 'reword_MSVC_documentation'

1185438ea8 Help: Reword the MSVC variable documentation focusing on cl.exe compatibility

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <[email protected]>
Merge-request: !5676
Brad King 5 years ago
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 MSVC
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-Set to ``true`` when the compiler is some version of Microsoft Visual
-C++ or another compiler simulating Visual C++.  Any compiler defining
-``_MSC_VER`` is considered simulating Visual C++.
+Set to ``true`` when the compiler is some version of Microsoft Visual C++
+or another compiler simulating the Visual C++ ``cl`` command-line syntax.
 
 See also the :variable:`MSVC_VERSION` variable.