[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Target specific info available to Clang (and others)

[JF Bastien]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
wrote:

> On 25 October 2014 10:02, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > To clarify: Are you asking if there's a use case for clang being able to
> generate IR for architectures that it can't generate native code for?  The
> only cases I can think of for this are special targets (SPIR, PNaCl), where
> there isn't a corresponding back end.
>
> If the only cases are the ones that don't have back-ends, then the
> solution is trivial: create empty back-ends for them that *just*
> contains the target information, and all should behave identical.
>

I think this is OK for PNaCl.

What David is suggesting is interesting though: what if a target wanted to
have ARM, x86 and MIPS assembly all assembled in a single executable at the
end (not PNaCl's usecase)? It seems like you could just create separate .o
and merge them later, no?
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