FIX:Adding the utf8 compilation option can fix this debug jump issue.

[xiaobing318]

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If you compile a ggml project separately on a Windows platform, you may encounter misalignment issues when debugging the Debug configuration code in a non-English system locale. This is because the Visual Studio compiler (CL.exe) may incorrectly parse the number of bytes occupied by characters (such as Chinese characters) when encountering a "UTF-8 file without BOM" in a non-English system locale. This causes the compiler to think that the end of a line of code is inconsistent with the position you see.

I renamed the helper function from disable_msvc_warnings to configure_msvc_target. Since this function now handles encoding (/utf-8) in addition to warnings, the new name better reflects its purpose.

[xiaobing318]

Hi @ggerganov,
I noticed that ggml/CMakeLists.txt isn’t covered by the current CODEOWNERS. If you have time, would you mind taking a look at this PR to help review the changes there? Thanks in advance!

[ggerganov]

We already set the compile options for MSVC here:

llama.cpp/CMakeLists.txt

Lines 53 to 60 in a2b0fe8

	if (MSVC)
	add_compile_options("$<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:C>:/utf-8>")
	add_compile_options("$<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:/utf-8>")
	add_compile_options("$<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:C>:/bigobj>")
	add_compile_options("$<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:/bigobj>")
	endif()

Does this not work?

[xiaobing318]

We already set the compile options for MSVC here:

llama.cpp/CMakeLists.txt

Lines 53 to 60 in a2b0fe8

	if (MSVC)
	add_compile_options("$<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:C>:/utf-8>")
	add_compile_options("$<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:/utf-8>")
	add_compile_options("$<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:C>:/bigobj>")
	add_compile_options("$<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:/bigobj>")
	endif()

Does this not work?

Currently, the UTF-8 compilation options set in the llama.cpp project work for the ggml project. However, if I compile the ggml project separately from the llama.cpp project, the problem I described occurs. In the CONTRIBUTING.md file of the ggml project, I noticed: "For changes to the core ggml library (including to the CMake build system), please open a PR in https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp. Doing so will make your PR more visible, better tested, and more likely to be reviewed." Therefore, I submitted this PR to the llama.cpp project.

[xiaobing318]

@ggerganov

When you have time, could you please advise whether:

1. this change should be handled here in llama.cpp, or
2. additional adjustments are needed before it can be merged?