On 14 October 2012 21:24, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 14 October 2012 21:15, Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> >> wrote: >>> Blue Swirl previously submitted a patch which enabled this flag >>> (among others): >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-07/msg04203.html >> >> In my version, Clang flags were separate from GCC flags. I think it >> would be better to run different tests for each compiler in the >> future, that lets GCC avoid Clang flag -ffoobar which does not have >> desirable effect to GCC and vice versa. > > Mmm, but at the moment it's entirely fine to pass both compilers > the same flags, and moreover we actually pass all these flags > to the compiler without checking if it's gcc or not; we just > ask if the compiler will run OK with the flag passed. (I'm not > even sure how you'd determine whether your compiler was gcc > or clang or gcc-llvm or whatever...)
This discussion seems to have got stalled. Do you really want to try to add a mechanism for detecting which compiler is being used and applyng different flags for each, given that we don't actually need to do that in this case? -- PMM
