Emit target specific defines based on CodeGenOptions

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Dear List,

I am looking into adding some new Arm-specific feature test macros defined by the latest release of ACLE: Documentation – Arm Developer

Namely these are __ARM_FEATURE_BTI_DEFAULT and __ARM_FEATURE_PAC_DEFAULT.

However, CodeGenOptions is not accessible from TargetInfo, as far as I can tell, and there is no use-case for emitting such a define as of today.

I am asking for some advice how to implement it correctly.

I think there are three possible solutions:

1. Refactor getTargetDefines() to have CodeGenOptions as argument, pass CodeGenOptions through preprocessor.

2. Use adjustTargetOptions(), remove const qualifier, store state in AArch64TargetInfo, use stored state to generate macros.

3. Add new virtual function to TargetInfo (getTargetDefinesCGO()?), pass CodeGenOptions through preprocessor, invoke getTargetDefinesCGO() right after getTargetDefines().

I would prefer option 1 but it is a massive diff.

What do you think? Is there a better way to achieve this?

Looking forward to you comments.

Best regards,
Tamas Petz

u.i.: should be there a disclaimer in this mail, please ignore it.

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If an option has an effect on preprocessing/semantic analysis, it shouldn't be in CodeGenOptions; it should be in LangOptions.

-Eli

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Hi Eli,

Thank you, I think I'll move related code from CodeGenOptions to LangOptions then.

- Tamas

    If an option has an effect on preprocessing/semantic analysis, it shouldn't be in CodeGenOptions; it should be in LangOptions.
    
    -Eli

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Hi Eli,

Thank you, I think I’ll move related code from CodeGenOptions to LangOptions then.

  • Tamas