[PATCH] D57874: [WebAssembly] Make thread-related options consistent

Fri Feb 8 13:44:31 PST 2019

tlively added a comment.

In D57874#1390014 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D57874#1390014>, @sbc100 wrote:

> In D57874#1389981 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D57874#1389981>, @sunfish wrote:
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> > > - `-matomics` means `-mthread-model posix`
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> > The others sound reasonable, though this one seems a little surprising -- a user might have -matomics enabled because they're targeting a VM that has atomics, but still not want to use -mthread-model posix because their code doesn't actually using threads.
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> If you look at what "-mthread-model posix" actually means in the codebase it basically means "don't lower away atomics ops".
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> Its only used by WebAssembly and ARMTargetMachine to select the `createLowerAtomicPass`.   Given that these are the only uses it seems like it should be removed or renamed.

FWIW, I plan to use the thread-model argument to determine what kind of initialization flags data segments should use as well. Will share a short doc detailing this soon.

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