Hi Bernie,

Patch 0001: Trivial, LGTM.
Patch 0002: I'm not sure about crypto being enabled by default. The ARMARM 
describes this as an extension  (and one which may be disabled due to 
cryptographic/weapons export rules). Do we expect this to be so prevalent that 
it should be enabled by default?

Also, why are crypto extensions encoded into the -mfpu option? They don't seem 
to be FPU related (if that concept even exists any more).

Patch 0003: My understanding is that floating point is not an extension in 
ARMv8(A). Therefore, why do we need an FPU option for it?

+      if (CPUArch == "6T2" || CPUArch[0] >= '7')

I *really* don't like the use of the ASCII non-equality comparison here.

+    if ((FPU & NeonFPU) && !SoftFloat && CPUArch[0] >= '7')

Implies NeonGPU must be set for ARMv8... is this true/necessary?

   } else if (FPU == "neon-fp-armv8") {
     Features.push_back("+fp-armv8");
     Features.push_back("+neon");
+    Features.push_back("-crypto");

Is NEON an extension in ArmV8? My reading of the ARMARM says that it isn't (the 
only extension mentioned by name is crypto...)

Cheers,

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:cfe-commits-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bernie Ogden
> Sent: 10 October 2013 18:01
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [PATCH] AArch32 target support
>
> The attached patches-for-review build on a pair of patches I've submitted to
> llvm-commits for ARM v8 AArch32 support. They tell the clang driver about
> the Cortex A53 & A57 CPUs, invoke the GNU linker with the right fpu option
> and deal with the various combinations of FP/NEON/Crypto support.
>
> I've a couple of specific queries:
>
> 1) I've followed a policy of supporting non-Darwin targets only. Is the
> right thing to do, or should I add support for Darwin too?
>
> 2) There is some support for dealing with different combinations of
> FP/NEON/Crypto features. Here I've got some plumbing (in patch 0003) to
> add
> a predefine for v8 FP, but I'm not sure what predefine to set here. The
> existing code has predefines of the form __ARM_VFPV4__, which do not
> exist
> in GCC. I would be grateful if someone could tell me what these predefines
> are for and whether I need to add another for v8 FP.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernie

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