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Simplify Clang's version number configuration in CMake.
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Authored by dlj on Sep 12 2016, 6:55 PM.

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Simplify Clang's version number configuration in CMake.

Currently, the Clang version is computed as follows:

  1. LLVM defines major, minor, and patch versions, all statically set. Today, these are 4, 0, and 0, respectively.
  2. The static version numbers are combined into PACKAGE_VERSION along with a suffix, so the result today looks like "4.0.0svn".
  3. Clang extracts CLANG_VERSION from PACKAGE_VERSION using a regexp. The regexp allows the patch level to omitted, and drops any non-digit trailing values. Today, this result looks like "4.0.0".
  4. CLANG_VERSION is then split further into CLANG_VERSION_MAJOR and CLANG_VERSION_MINOR. Today, these resolve to 4 and 0, respectively.
  5. If CLANG_VERSION matches a regexp with three version components, then CLANG_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL is extracted and the CLANG_HAS_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL variable is set to 1. Today, these values are 0 and 1, respectively.
  6. The CLANG_VERSION_* variables (and CLANG_HAS_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL) are configured into [llvm/tools/clang/]include/clang/Basic/Version.inc verbatim by CMake.
  7. In [llvm/tools/clang/]include/clang/Basic/Version.h, macros are defined conditionally, based on CLANG_HAS_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL, to compute CLANG_VERSION_STRING as either a two- or three-level version number. Today, this value is "4.0.0", because despite the patchlevel being 0, it was matched by regexp and is thus "HAS"ed by the preprocessor. This string is then used wherever Clang's "version" is needed [*].
  • Including, notably, by compiler-rt, for computing its installation path.

This change collapses steps 2-5 by defaulting Clang to use LLVM's (non-string)
version components for the Clang version (see [*] for why not PACKAGE_VERSION),
and collapses steps 6 and 7 by simply writing CLANG_VERSION_STRING into
Version.inc. The Clang version today always uses the patchlevel form, so the
collapsed Version.inc does not have logic for a version without a patch level.

Historically speaking, this technique began with the VER file in r82085 (which
survives in the form of the regexp in #3). The major, minor, and patchlevel
versions were introduced by r106863 (which remains in #4-6). The VER file itself
was deleted in favor of the LLVM version number in r106914. On the LLVM side,
the individual LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR, LLVM_VERSION_MINOR, and PACKAGE_VERSION
weren't introduced for nearly two more years, until r150405.

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dlj updated this revision to Diff 71094.Sep 12 2016, 6:55 PM
dlj retitled this revision from to Simplify Clang's version number configuration in CMake..
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dlj added a reviewer: rsmith.
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rsmith accepted this revision.Sep 13 2016, 12:09 PM
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LGTM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 13 2016, 12:09 PM
Eugene.Zelenko closed this revision.Oct 4 2016, 2:05 PM
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Committed in rL281666.