Only switch to absl::string_view implementation on Windows. #2307
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On gcc and clang-based systems, std::string_view has the iterator behave as expected by a lot of Verible code, being a const char*. On windows c++ lib, the iterator is its own object, which does not decay to const char*, so in that case we need to use the absl:: implementation which behaves like that. We used to always change to the absl type, but in reality, we only need to do that on Windows; adapt the abseil patch. Longer term, we should remove the expectation of the iterator type, but that requires access to a Windows machine to locally go through a compile/fix loop.
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On gcc and clang-based systems, std::string_view has the iterator behave as expected by a lot of Verible code, being a const char*.
On windows c++ lib, the iterator is its own object, which does not decay to const char*, so in that case we need to use the absl:: implementation which behaves like that.
We used to always change to the absl type, but in reality, we only need to do that on Windows; adapt the abseil patch.
Longer term, we should remove the expectation of the iterator type, but that requires access to a Windows machine to locally go through a compile/fix loop.