joerg added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34158#837444, @jyknight wrote:

> Now, the "/tmp/foo-XXX.sh" also has a line labeled "Driver args: " with the 
> original command-line on it. If I understand correctly, you then like to take 
> this
>  simpler Driver command-line, and edit it manually: add -save-temps, and 
> change the input filename  to the "/tmp/foo-XXX.c" file, and run that, instead
>  of actually invoking the reproducer foo-XXX.sh.


It's not so much that it is simpler, but the only reasonable easy way for 
forcing preprocessor output to written. That one is much nicer for passing to 
creduce for example (after stripping the remaining # lines).

> Since stdc-predef.h is included automatically, it will now be present twice 
> -- first, it will read the one from your system's /usr/include, and then the 
> copy inlined into the
>  /tmp/foo-XXX.c file. That's not what you desired. You wanted nothing from 
> your /usr/include to be used.

Correct. Worse, the include may file depending on the host system and give 
different results from the original build, resulting in annoying debugging 
seasons.

> The fix for the end-user here is easy: you can add -nostdinc which will 
> suppress all the default include paths, and thus it will not find this predef 
> file from your system include dir.

Yeah, except you have to remember that when it was never needed before.

> I'll note that you'd also have had an issue if the original driver 
> command-line had a "-include" option in it, which you would have needed to 
> edit out
>  manually as well. (But I understand that is less common.)

Yes, -include is rarely used in the wild.

> Have I correctly described the situation? I guess my feeling here is that 
> this is somewhat of an edge-case, and that the workaround (-nostdinc) is a 
> sufficient fix.
> 
>>>> (3) It seems to me that the GNU userland (and maybe Windows) is the 
>>>> exception to a well integrated tool chain. Most other platforms have a 
>>>> single canonical
>>>>  libc, libm and libpthread implementation and can as such directly define 
>>>> all the relevant macros directly in the driver.
>>> 
>>> I don't think this is accurate. There's many platforms out there, and for 
>>> almost none of them do we have exact knowledge of the features of the libc 
>>> encoded
>>>  into the compiler. I'd note that not only do you need this for every (OS, 
>>> libc) combination, you'd need it for every (OS, libc-VERSION) combination.
>> 
>> Not really. The feature set is rarely changing and generally will have only 
>> a cut-off version.
> 
> Yes, but this is information that the compiler has no real need to know, and 
> that for many platforms would be difficult and problematic to coordinate.

That's kind of my point. There is little coordination involved for almost all 
platforms since they provide a consistent user environment as a single package. 
Pushing the changes into Clang (or GCC for that matter) is trivial if you do 
not have to deal with multiple different versions of libc, the kernel and 
whatever in a mix-and-match scenario.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D34158



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