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    TargetParser: FPU/ARCH/EXT parsing refactory - NFC · f5f373fc
    Renato Golin authored
    This new class in a global context contain arch-specific knowledge in order
    to provide LLVM libraries, tools and projects with the ability to understand
    the architectures. For now, only FPU, ARCH and ARCH extensions on ARM are
    supported.
    
    Current behaviour it to parse from free-text to enum values and back, so that
    all users can share the same parser and codes. This simplifies a lot both the
    ASM/Obj streamers in the back-end (where this came from), and the front-end
    parsers for command line arguments (where this is going to be used next).
    
    The previous implementation, using .def/.h includes is deprecated due to its
    inflexibility to be built without the backend support and for being too
    cumbersome. As more architectures join this scheme, and as more features of
    such architectures are added (such as hardware features, type sizes, etc) into
    a full blown TargetDescription class, having a set of classes is the most
    sane implementation.
    
    The ultimate goal of this refactor both LLVM's and Clang's target description
    classes into one unique interface, so that we can de-duplicate and standardise
    the descriptions, as well as make it available for other front-ends, tools,
    etc.
    
    The FPU parsing for command line options in Clang has been converted to use
    this new library and a number of aliases were added for compatibility:
     * A bogus neon-vfpv3 alias (neon defaults to vfp3)
     * armv5/v6
     * {fp4/fp5}-{sp/dp}-d16
    
    Next steps:
     * Port Clang's ARCH/EXT parsing to use this library.
     * Create a TableGen back-end to generate this information.
     * Run this TableGen process regardless of which back-ends are built.
     * Expose more information and rename it to TargetDescription.
     * Continue re-factoring Clang to use as much of it as possible.
    
    llvm-svn: 236900
    f5f373fc
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