[flang-commits] [flang] [llvm] [flang] Use backend fp128 support to determine REAL(16) availability (PR #221907)

[Michael Kruse via flang-commits]

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@@ -67,7 +71,30 @@ namespace Fortran::tools {
   constexpr bool f128Support = false;
 #endif
 
-  if constexpr (!f128Support) {
+  bool f128BESupport = false;
+  llvm::LLVMContext ctx;
+  std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module> dummyModule =
+      std::make_unique<llvm::Module>("quad-test", ctx);
+  dummyModule->setTargetTriple(targetMachine.getTargetTriple());
+  dummyModule->setDataLayout(targetMachine.createDataLayout());
+
+  llvm::FunctionType *dummyFTy =
+      llvm::FunctionType::get(llvm::Type::getVoidTy(ctx), false);
+  llvm::Function *dummyF = llvm::Function::Create(dummyFTy,
+      llvm::GlobalValue::ExternalLinkage, "quad-test", dummyModule.get());
+
+  const llvm::TargetLowering *dummyTLI =
+      targetMachine.getSubtargetImpl(*dummyF)->getTargetLowering();
+
+  if (dummyTLI) {
+    llvm::EVT fp128EVT = llvm::EVT::getEVT(llvm::Type::getFP128Ty(ctx));
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Meinersbur wrote:

This requires linking to the CodeGen component:
```
diff --git a/flang/lib/Frontend/CMakeLists.txt b/flang/lib/Frontend/CMakeLists.txt
index bd67ec444f358..f84c226e92fef 100644
--- a/flang/lib/Frontend/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/flang/lib/Frontend/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ add_flang_library(flangFrontend
   Plugins
   Analysis
   BitReader
+  CodeGen
   Extensions
   IRPrinter
   IRReader          
```

Why even create a dummy module and not just call `targetLowering->isTypeLegal(llvm::MVT::f128)`?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/221907