[flang-commits] [flang] [flang][driver] Improve diagnostic for assembly inputs (PR #174316)
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Author: Soumik Kumar Basu (soumikiith)
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<summary>Changes</summary>
This PR improves the error message when assembly files are passed to the Flang driver.
## Current Behavior
```
$ flang test.s
error: unknown integrated tool '-cc1as'. Valid tools include '-fc1'.
```
## New Behavior
```
$ flang test.s
error: flang does not support assembly files as input
```
## Changes
- Modified the driver to detect assembly file extensions early
- Added a clear, helpful error message
- Added test coverage for the new error message
Fixes #<!-- -->173528
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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/174316.diff
2 Files Affected:
- (added) flang/test/Driver/asm-error-fix.s (+9)
- (modified) flang/tools/flang-driver/driver.cpp (+21)
``````````diff
diff --git a/flang/test/Driver/asm-error-fix.s b/flang/test/Driver/asm-error-fix.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d9d5d444bd698
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flang/test/Driver/asm-error-fix.s
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+! Test that flang rejects assembly files as input
+
+! RUN: not %flang -c %s 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
+
+! CHECK: error: flang does not accept assembly code
+
+.globl foo
+foo:
+ ret
diff --git a/flang/tools/flang-driver/driver.cpp b/flang/tools/flang-driver/driver.cpp
index 0840255a739f3..136922cceff0d 100644
--- a/flang/tools/flang-driver/driver.cpp
+++ b/flang/tools/flang-driver/driver.cpp
@@ -147,6 +147,27 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv) {
llvm::SmallVector<std::pair<int, const clang::driver::Command *>, 4>
failingCommands;
+ for (const auto &job : c->getJobs()) {
+ const auto *cmd = llvm::dyn_cast<clang::driver::Command>(&job);
+ if (!cmd)
+ continue;
+
+ for (const clang::driver::InputInfo &inputInfo : cmd->getInputInfos()) {
+ clang::driver::types::ID type = inputInfo.getType();
+
+ if (type == clang::driver::types::TY_Asm ||
+ type == clang::driver::types::TY_PP_Asm) {
+
+ diags.Report(diags.getCustomDiagID(
+ clang::DiagnosticsEngine::Error,
+ "flang does not accept assembly code"))
+ << inputInfo.getAsString();
+
+ return 1;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
// Set the environment variable, FLANG_COMPILER_OPTIONS_STRING, to contain all
// the compiler options. This is intended for the frontend driver,
// flang -fc1, to enable the implementation of the COMPILER_OPTIONS
``````````
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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/174316
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