[LLVMdev] Compiler driver

Mark Muir mark.i.r.muir at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 04:23:15 PST 2009


Thanks for the reply.

I can't get clang to accept the architecture - it runs gcc instead. Maybe I'm doing something wrong when I modified LLVM to accept my architecture. I did the following:

Modified 'configure' to specify my architecture's name in TARGETS_TO_BUILD.
When running configure, the --enable-targets=MY_ARCH option is given.
Added my architecture to the Triple::ArchType enumeration (in include/llvm/ADT/Triple.h).
Added suitable code to the switch statements that use Triple::ArchType (in lib/support/Tripple.cpp).

'llc' accepts my target. I'm building clang inside 'tools/clang' of the LLVM working copy, in accordance to the documentation. I see clang getting rebuilt every time I modify my target's source files.

I should've mentioned that I'm working from the 2.6 release.


Also, once I've got that working, is there a way to make clang use these options by default? What's the difference between 'clang' and a custom driver built using 'llvmc'?

Regards,

- Mark


On 16 Dec 2009, at 11:49, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:

> 
> Le 16 déc. 2009 à 10:54, Mark Muir a écrit :
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm developing a custom back-end for an odd-ball architecture (but one that is still describable by LLVMTargetMachine). The toolchain that it will fit into doesn't have a linker as such, so I want to use assembly as the default output. I've got to the point of emitting working custom assembly for very simple C programs (i.e. ones that don't rely on libraries). At the moment, I'm doing this through clang-cc and llc:
>> 
>> 	clang-cc -D=MY_ARCH -emit-llvm-bc -o -  in.c \
>> 	| llc -filetype=asm -march=my_arch
>> 
>> I want to be able to package this compiler as a cross-compiler - a single binary to go from C to assembly for that target. It should define a macro (as shown above) to allow the target to be identified by source code. I was thinking of doing this using llvmc to capture the above command-line. Is that the recommended approach?
> 
> clang-cc does not longer exist, so you should not rely on it and use clang instead.
> 
> You should be able to use it exactly the same way that you was using gcc (it is designed to be a drop in replacement), so "clang -arch my_arch -DMY_ARCH -S -o - in.c" should works.
> 
> 
> -- Jean-Daniel

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