[PATCH] D15899: Add -fno-movt frontend option, to disable movt/movw on ARM

Joerg Sonnenberger via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jan 5 12:29:07 PST 2016


On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:12:34PM +0000, Dimitry Andric via cfe-commits wrote:
> In rL256641, @davide turned off movt generation by default for FreeBSD.
> This was because our ld is very old, and did not support the relocations
> for it.  However, Ian Lepore added the support very recently, so we
> would like to revert rL256641, and replace it with a new `-fno-movt`
> frontend option.  This way, it can be turned off when needed.

Is there a precendent for the option name? It should be -m* and not -f*,
since it is not target independent.

Joerg


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