[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] AArch64 Clang CLI interface proposal

[Bernie Ogden]

I think there's an error in the example here.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/AArch64-Options.html still
documents -mcpu, and that march does not take CPUs as arguments. A local GCC
developer tells me that the documentation is wrong in that -mcpu is actually
a shorthand for specifying both -mtune and -march, but that the option is
certainly there.

 

If we want GCC comptability then that's what we have to do, unless someone
knows that GCC ARM/AArch64 is actually going to move away from this.

 

Do we want GCC compatibility?

 

Regards,

 

Bernie

 

 

From: cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On
Behalf Of Eric Christopher
Sent: 07 January 2014 21:37
To: Renato Golin; Amara Emerson; Clang Dev; LLVM Dev
Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] AArch64 Clang CLI interface proposal

 

Parsing the arch string is a bit icky, but I don't really have too much of a
problem with it - and it's better than -mcpu so...

 

-eric

 

On Tue Jan 07 2014 at 9:23:43 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
wrote:

On 7 January 2014 17:05, Amara Emerson <amara.emerson at arm.com> wrote:

We plan on implementing this interface for AArch64 Clang in future, and
completely dropping the current support for -mfpu. This means that -march
will become the preferred way to specify the target CPU/architecture.

 

Hi Amara,

 

This is something we were converging on the ARM32 world, too, and I believe
other targets would probably do the same, if not before us. Hopefully,
that'd also help clean up the driver's code in the process.

 

cheers,

--renato
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