[LLVMdev] Target data question

[Dan Gohman]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Kenneth Uildriks wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Kenneth Uildriks <kennethuil at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Dan Gohman <gohman at apple.com> wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, yes.  See PR4542.  Progress has been made recently
>>> though -- the optimizers are now ready.  The main things left to do
>>> is to update the documentation and update the testsuite to account
>>> for the change in the meaning of a module without a targetdata string.
>>> 
>>> Dan
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> So in the near future, the optimizers won't do any target-specific
>> transformations in the absence of module target data?
>> 
> 
> Also, has anyone passed a target data string to "opt" with
> -targetdata?  I'm trying that out now and getting "Too many positional
> arguments specified!".  I've tried escaping all the dashes in the
> target data string... no luck

It's broken. It's probably easily fixable if you have a good
idea of what the user interface should be.

Dan