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authorReid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>2004-08-29 23:20:42 +0000
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Synchronize documentation of configuration items and substitutions with
current reality of llvmc implementation. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@16108 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@
llvmc -O2 x.c y.c z.c -o xyz</code>
<p>must produce <i>exactly</i> the same results as:</p>
<pre><tt>
- llvmc -O2 x.c
- llvmc -O2 y.c
- llvmc -O2 z.c
+ llvmc -O2 x.c -o x.o
+ llvmc -O2 y.c -o y.o
+ llvmc -O2 z.c -o z.o
llvmc -O2 x.o y.o z.o -o xyz</tt></pre>
<p>To accomplish this, <tt>llvmc</tt> uses a very simple goal oriented
procedure to do its work. The overall goal is to produce a functioning
@@ -446,6 +446,16 @@ optimization.</p>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
+ <tr><td colspan="4"><h4>LLVMC ITEMS</h4></td></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><b>version</b></td>
+ <td>string</td>
+ <td class="td_left">Provides the version string for the contents of this
+ configuration file. What is accepted as a legal configuration file
+ will change over time and this item tells <tt>llvmc</tt> which version
+ should be expected.</td>
+ <td><i>b</i></td>
+ </tr>
<tr><td colspan="4"><h4>LANG ITEMS</h4></td></tr>
<tr>
<td><b>lang.name</b></td>
@@ -520,7 +530,7 @@ optimization.</p>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>translator.output</b></td>
- <td><tt>native</tt>, <tt>bytecode</tt> or <tt>assembly</tt></td>
+ <td><tt>bytecode</tt> or <tt>assembly</tt></td>
<td class="td_left">This item specifies the kind of output the language's
translator generates.</td>
<td><tt>bytecode</tt></td>
@@ -533,24 +543,6 @@ optimization.</p>
whenever the final phase is not pre-processing.</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
- <tr>
- <td><b>translator.optimizes</b></td>
- <td>boolean</td>
- <td class="td_left">Indicates that the translator also optimizes. If
- this is true, then <tt>llvmc</tt> will skip the optimization phase
- whenever the final phase is optimization or later.</td>
- <td><tt>false</tt></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><b>translator.groks_dash_o</b></td>
- <td>boolean</td>
- <td class="td_left">Indicates that the translator understands the
- <i>intent</i> of the various <tt>-O</tt><i>n</i> options to
- <tt>llvmc</tt>. This will cause the <tt>-O</tt><i>n</i> option to be
- given to the translator instead of the equivalent options provided by
- <tt>lang.opt</tt><i>n</i>.</td>
- <td><tt>false</tt></td>
- </tr>
<tr><td colspan="4"><h4>OPTIMIZER ITEMS</h4></td></tr>
<tr>
<td><b>optimizer.command</b></td>
@@ -562,9 +554,9 @@ optimization.</p>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>optimizer.output</b></td>
- <td><tt>native</tt>, <tt>bytecode</tt> or <tt>assembly</tt></td>
+ <td><tt>bytecode</tt> or <tt>assembly</tt></td>
<td class="td_left">This item specifies the kind of output the language's
- optimizer generates.</td>
+ optimizer generates. Valid values are "assembly" and "bytecode"<td>
<td><tt>bytecode</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
@@ -583,16 +575,6 @@ optimization.</p>
whenever the final phase is optimization or later.</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
- <tr>
- <td><b>optimizer.groks_dash_o</b></td>
- <td>boolean</td>
- <td class="td_left">Indicates that the translator understands the
- <i>intent</i> of the various <tt>-O</tt><i>n</i> options to
- <tt>llvmc</tt>. This will cause the <tt>-O</tt><i>n</i> option to be
- given to the translator instead of the equivalent options provided by
- <tt>lang.opt</tt><i>n</i>.</td>
- <td><tt>false</tt></td>
- </tr>
<tr><td colspan="4"><h4>ASSEMBLER ITEMS</h4></td></tr>
<tr>
<td><b>assembler.command</b></td>
@@ -602,36 +584,6 @@ optimization.</p>
input file and <tt>%out%</tt> for the output file.</td>
<td>&lt;blank&gt;</td>
</tr>
- <tr><td colspan="4"><h4>LINKER ITEMS</h4></td></tr>
- <tr>
- <td><b>linker.libs</b></td>
- <td>library names</td>
- <td class="td_left">This provides the list of runtime libraries that the
- source language <i>could</i> link with. In general, the libraries
- needed will be encoded into the LLVM Assembly or bytecode file.
- However, this list tells <tt>llvmc</tt> the names of the ones that
- apply to this source language. The names provided here should be
- unadorned with no suffix and no "lib" prefix.
- </td>
- <td>&lt;blank&gt;</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><b>linker.lib_paths</b></td>
- <td>Fully qualifed local path names</td>
- <td class="td_left">This item provides a list of potential directories
- in which the source language's runtime libraries might be located. If
- a given object file compiled with this language's translator is linked
- then those libraries will be given as <tt>-L</tt> options to the
- linker.</td>
- <td><tt>&lt;blank&gt;</tt></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><b>linker.output</b></td>
- <td><tt>native</tt>, <tt>bytecode</tt> or <tt>assembly</tt></td>
- <td class="td_left">This item specifies the kind of output the language's
- translator generates.</td>
- <td><tt>bytecode</tt></td>
- </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
@@ -662,6 +614,13 @@ optimization.</p>
tool.
</td>
<tr>
+ <td><tt>%force%</tt></td>
+ <td class="td_left">Replaced with the <tt>-f</tt> option if it was
+ specified on the <tt>llvmc</tt> command line. This is intended to tell
+ the compiler tool to force the overwrite of output files.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
<td><tt>%in%</tt></td>
<td class="td_left">Replaced with the full path of the input file. You
needn't worry about the cascading of file names. <tt>llvmc</tt> will
@@ -753,7 +712,7 @@ optimization.</p>
# To compile stacker source, we just run the stacker
# compiler with a default stack size of 2048 entries.
translator.command=stkrc -s 2048 %in% -o %out% %time% \
- %stats% %args%
+ %stats% %force% %args%
# stkrc doesn't preprocess but we set this to true so
# that we don't run the cp command by default.
@@ -762,11 +721,8 @@ optimization.</p>
# The translator is required to run.
translator.required=true
- # stkrc doesn't do any optimization, it just translates
- translator.optimizes=no
-
# stkrc doesn't handle the -On options
- translator.groks_dash_O=no
+ translator.output=bytecode
##########################################################
# Optimizer definitions
@@ -774,10 +730,9 @@ optimization.</p>
# For optimization, we use the LLVM "opt" program
optimizer.command=opt %in% -o %out% %opt% %time% %stats% \
- %args%
+ %force% %args%
- # opt doesn't (yet) grok -On
- optimizer.groks_dash_O=no
+ optimizer.required = true
# opt doesn't translate
optimizer.translates = no
@@ -785,17 +740,13 @@ optimization.</p>
# opt doesn't preprocess
optimizer.preprocesses=no
-##########################################################
-# Assembler definitions
-##########################################################
- assembler.command=llc %in% -o %out% %target% \
- "-regalloc=linearscan" %time% %stats%
+ # opt produces bytecode
+ optimizer.output = bc
##########################################################
-# Linker definitions
+# Assembler definitions
##########################################################
- linker.libs=stkr_runtime
- linker.paths=
+ assembler.command=llc %in% -o %out% %target% %time% %stats%
</tt></pre>