[patch] Start fixing pr24429

[Dan Gohman via llvm-commits]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Rafael Espíndola
<rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It does remove information from MCObjectFileInfo though. Is it really
>> desirable to pick the Triple to be the one that gets to keep this
>> information, rather than the other way around? I don't have a clear
>> view of where this is headed.
>
> Even if we move it out of the triple, IMHO it is a good step to first
> have a single location.
>
> And given that we support things like x86_64-pc-windows-elf in the
> command line, having this information on the Triple c++ object also
> seems reasonable to me. If we remove it from one place we should also
> remove it from the other.

I don't know what x86_64-pc-windows-elf is, or why it isn't just
parsed into just a WindowsElf OSType. I'll let the people who know
more about this topic than me make the decisions here.

Dan