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Introduce -fembed-bitcode driver option
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Authored by steven_wu on Feb 18 2016, 9:38 AM.

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Summary

This is the clang driver part of the change to embedded bitcode. This
includes:

  1. -fembed-bitcode option which breaks down the compilation into two

stages. The first stage emits optimized bitcode and the second stage
compiles bitcode into object file.

  1. -fembed-bitcode-marker option which doesn't really break down to

two stages to speedup the compilation flow.

  1. pass the correct linker flag to darwin linker if tool chains supports

embedded bitcode.

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steven_wu updated this revision to Diff 48345.Feb 18 2016, 9:38 AM
steven_wu retitled this revision from to Introduce -fembed-bitcode driver option.
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thakis added a subscriber: thakis.Feb 29 2016, 11:48 AM

I don't understand the changes to Driver.cpp lines 1760 and down. The rest looks good to me.

lib/Driver/Driver.cpp
1763

Why is this change needed? If its needed, is the preceding comment out of date now?

steven_wu updated this revision to Diff 49431.Feb 29 2016, 3:46 PM

Make selectToolForJob logic better and less disruptive for -fembed-bitcode.

When -fembed-bitcode is used, the same old logic is used to decide if
CompileJob and BackendJob can be combined with an extra requirement for
-fembed-bitcode. The old logic was there to work around the Fortran input
which invokes gcc to compile. -fembed-bitcode requires CompileJob and BackendJob
to be the same (and can emit IR) so it can be splited between these two stages.

thakis accepted this revision.Feb 29 2016, 4:38 PM
thakis added a reviewer: thakis.

Thanks, that's much clearer :-)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 29 2016, 4:38 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

Thanks for reviewing the patch. There is a problem in the test case (it only works on darwin). It is fixed in r262286.

lib/Driver/Driver.cpp
1763

The preceding comment is still true but this condition makes BackendInputs->begin() not always CompileJobAction. I have a cleaner way to handle this. I am rebasing and updating the patch.