[cfe-dev] First shot at Bug 4127 - The clang driver should support cross compilation

[James Molloy]

Hi,

The idea of embedding a scripting language has been veto'd on multiple occasions because of

(a) the dependency on a scripting language / putting a scripting interpreter in the tree
(b) speed issues
(c) turing completeness makes it impossible to guarantee a decent speed of execution.

The problem has been discussed and a solution (JSON target database) is winging its way to the list shortly. It's just taken me a while to work out just how much of Tools.cpp and ToolChains.cpp I can rip out (5000 lines of "kinda-sorta-common-code"), when, and how to do it incrementally.

Cheers,

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru]
Sent: 10 January 2012 09:02
To: Sebastian Pop
Cc: cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu Developers; clang-commits at cs.uiuc.edu; James Molloy
Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] First shot at Bug 4127 - The clang driver should support cross compilation



10.01.2012, 01:00, "Sebastian Pop" <spop at codeaurora.org>:
> Hi,
>
> The attached patch uses the JSON parser to read the target
> from a config file.  I would like to get some opinions on this
> patch before we go further to fix
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4127
>
> In a first implementation, I would like to have at least the following
> information registered in the config file:
>
> [
>     {
>         "target": "arm-none-linux-gnueabi",
>         "c-include-dirs": "/gcc/path:/libc/path",
>         "cxx-include-root": "/some/other/path"
>     }
> ]
>

I propose to embed Lua and use Lua table instead of JSON. Config could look like

toolchain {
    target = "arm-none-linux-gnueabi",
    c_include_dirs = { "/gcc/path", "/libc/path" },
    cxx_include_root = "/some/other/path",
    as = "/path/to/as",
    ld = "/path/to/ld"
}

toolchain {
-- next toolchain definition
..
}

It would also bring scripting capabilities.

--
Regards,
Konstantin


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