[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] [PATCH] triples for baremetal

[Jonathan Roelofs]

On 6/23/14, 8:31 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2014, at 15:13, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> The main issue with your patch is that it can change user expected
>> behaviour, and I can't tell you what is the expected behaviour in
>> Darwin or BSD. If people usually use "unknown" in triples, this will
>> break their builds. If not, this could break the build of someone who
>> does.
Renato,

I would like to go this route, providing I can get support from the community 
that this is the direction we'd all like to take... I'd rather not make triples 
more complicated by introducing lots of special cases.

Do you know who the right folks are to ask about the SPIR triples?


Tim,

This patch changes behavior a little for macho_embedded targets (i.e. from 
OSType::Unknown to OSType::NoneOS). I see that there is existing code to 
transform triples from things like thumbv7-apple-darwin into 
thumbv7m-apple-unknown-macho. Do you have an expectation to support users who 
are using the latter form of triples who would be surprised by the change from 
thumbv7m-apple-unknown-macho to thumbv7m-apple-none-macho (i.e. their 
thumbv7m-apple-unknown-macho builds no longer work)? Is this a case where all 
three triples are to mean the same thing?

>
> I think (Hat: FreeBSD) we only expect to see unknown in the vendor field (e.g. i386-unknown-freebsd).  If the OS field is unknown, rather than freebsd, then it's not one of ours and we aren't likely to care.  I don't really like the way that we conflate OS with ABI, but then I don't really like anything about triples...
David, thanks!


Cheers,
Jon

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> David
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