[cfe-dev] triples for baremetal

[Iain Sandoe]

On 17 Jun 2014, at 18:27, Saleem Abdulrasool wrote:

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> On Jun 17, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Jonathan Roelofs <jonathan at codesourcery.com> wrote:
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>> [+llvm-dev, cfe-dev]
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>> Was "Re: [PATCH] ARM: allow inline atomics on Cortex M"
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>> On 6/17/14, 10:42 AM, Jonathan Roelofs wrote:
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>>> On 6/17/14, 9:35 AM, Renato Golin wrote:
>>>> On 17 June 2014 16:29, Jonathan Roelofs <jonathan at codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>>>> Attached is what I now think the patch ought to be.
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>>>> Does unknownOS *always* mean bare-metal?
>>> I'm not sure. It might be a good time to fork this thread, and start another
>>> about triples for bare-metal...
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>> Personally, I think we ought to add a 'None' entry to the OSType enum specifically for baremetal, and then map triples like arm-none-eabi and arm--eabi to it (but not arm-foobar-eabi, for example).
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>> Thoughts?
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> Am I mistaken in that this is currently modeled as the following triple: {<arch>, <vendor>, Invalid, <environment>}.  To help clarify what I mean, consider the following armv4 baremetal eabi target: armv7---eabi.  It is arguably less than ideal for typing, but, it *should* work.
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> IIRC, config.sub uses unknown for the vendor field, and none for the os field, so the use of none may not be that bad.

<arch>-<vendor>-none-<environment>  

has the merit of making the "none" explict (although it's agreed that absence of a statement could be taken as defaulting to none)

Being explicit perhaps simplifies decoding default cases for the driver (e.g. if the User types 'arm-elf').



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>>>> --renato
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