[PATCH] D14577: Cull non-standard variants of ARM architectures (NFC)
A. Skrobov via llvm-commits
llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Nov 11 13:11:33 PST 2015
tyomitch added a comment.
In http://reviews.llvm.org/D14577#287416, @rengolin wrote:
> What's the motivation behind this?
>
> These names are used for -march and triples, which are still in use by many build systems out there (and why they were introduced in the first place).
>
> I don't see why we'd want to remove them, other than break legacy systems.
The motivation is to still accept them in -march and triples (as aliases), while cleaning them out of the rest of the source code.
The user interface stays unaffected.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D14577
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