[cfe-dev] Rename -ccc-host-triple into -ccc-target-triple

Eric Christopher echristo at apple.com
Thu Jan 5 00:12:37 PST 2012


On Jan 5, 2012, at 12:01 AM, James Molloy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If you keep the "-ccc-" prefix, you're still polishing a turd from my perspective. Setting the target architecture shouldn't be a driver-internal-special option.
> 

Agreed.

> We discussed this in the BoF at the conference, and decided on "-target", but "-triple" being an alias for that makes a lot of sense and I like it. I'm still working on the driver redesign - I haven't had a lot of resource to put into it yet but I'm ramping up as of the new year. Patches soon to follow.
> 

Yeah, I couldn't remember which we'd decided on. I believe it ended up being -target because we'd like to someday allow things that don't look like gnu target triples :)

-eric




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