Work around broken MSVC standard library

Change-Id: I9bbe6d231cc784f786dc5e31a641b8789fc35eb9

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/vcl/vclptr.hxx b/include/vcl/vclptr.hxx
index c1b1fb656926..372b8178c6c3 100644
--- a/include/vcl/vclptr.hxx
+++ b/include/vcl/vclptr.hxx
@@ -229,8 +229,15 @@ public:
         To avoid confusion whether it returns the address of either the
         pointed-to raw object (for which to use VclPtr::get instead) or the
         wrapper itself (for which to use std::addressof instead).
+
+        (Cannot be deleted at least with MSVC 12, as at least the innards of
+        std::stable_sort on a std::vector<VclPtr<T>>, as called from
+        TaskPaneList::FindNextSplitter in vcl/source/window/taskpanelist.cxx
+        require an address-of operator for VclPtr<T>.)
      */
+#if !defined _MSC_VER
     void operator &() = delete;
+#endif
 }; // class VclPtr
 
 template<typename T1, typename T2>