[LLVMdev] JIT should query host info at runtime - Re: buildbot failure in LLVM on llvm-gcc-build-x86_64-darwin10-x-mingw32-x-armeabi

[Eric Christopher]

On Nov 4, 2011, at 3:22 PM, spop at codeaurora.org wrote:

>> 
>> On Nov 4, 2011, at 3:11 PM, spop at codeaurora.org wrote:
>> 
>>> I think that for JIT, the compiler should figure out what the host
>>> is with a *runtime* check (i.e., the JIT should not use the info from
>>> the configure flag --host.)
>> 
>> That seems reasonable. Would you update this please?
>> 
> 
> Yes, I would be happy to find the best fix for this.
> 
> Thinking a bit more, I don't see a good reason to not use the value
> set by configure --host.  At configure time, we know the kind machine
> on which the compiler will run, so that's the machine we should target
> when JITting.  Opinions?

Yes. :)

This is what I was trying to say (and Eli came by to ask what I meant too :).

-eric