[llvm-dev] Diff to add ARMv6L to Target parser

[James Molloy via llvm-dev]

Hi,

IMO we should support this, even though if given the option I'd have asked
the linux guys not to invent a new triple. It's in linux now, and `uname
-a` is a very standard way of obtaining the host's triple.

James

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 at 08:34 Tim Northover via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> On 4 January 2016 at 14:42, Artyom Skrobov via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > Ah, I see: ARMv7L is now an alias for ARMv7A.
>
> The "armv7l" comes directly from the Linux kernel I believe: "armv7" +
> "little-endian" (arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:638 ish). I'm not entirely
> convinced the "l" belongs in any triple seen by LLVM, but if we do
> support it we should probably handle it analogously to the "el"/"eb"
> suffixes.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tim.
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