[PATCH] D14121: Thumb state not being passed through to LLVM triple when using clang -cc1as

[Tim Northover via cfe-commits]

t.p.northover added inline comments.

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Comment at: lib/Driver/ToolChain.cpp:485
@@ +484,3 @@
+    if ((ARM::parseArchProfile(Suffix) == ARM::PK_M) ||
+        (InputType != types::TY_PP_Asm &&
+         Args.hasFlag(options::OPT_mthumb, options::OPT_mno_thumb, ThumbDefault)))
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rengolin wrote:
> labrinea wrote:
> > Alternatively we could remove the check of InputType. I am not sure why this and the above comment are present anyway.
> I agree with you, this logic is inconsistent.
> 
> Historically, ARM assembly (especially inline assembly) is assumed ARM unless told otherwise. This is why you have to specify ".thumb" and not ".arm". However, that doesn't mean the assembly file *has* to be ARM, even if the arch name is "thumbvN" or if "-mthumb" is specified.
> 
> Not even GNU tools behave in such odd ways, so I think we should be consistent. If the triple is thumb, asm is thumb. If we have -mthumb, asm is thumb. If not, it's arm. Precisely how everything else works, so it's only logical that we should remove the InputType check.
I suspect the issue is with our weirdness. When I remove the TY_PP_Asm check "clang -arch armv7 -c tmp.s" defaults to Thumb-mode. I think I'd be lynched by the OS-folks if that changed.

(That's basically the entire content of the Radar Chad referred to in his original addition).


http://reviews.llvm.org/D14121