Re: [PATCH 01/20] Hexagon HVX (target/hexagon) README

[Rob Landley]

On 7/26/21 8:59 AM, Taylor Simpson wrote:
>> Anyway, I still hope somebody else has already done most of this in a git
>> tree somewhere. :)
>
> We're working on system mode support for Hexagon, and we plan to upstream it 
> when it is ready.

Yay! Thanks.

While you're at it, why is llvm's cmake config unable to do:

  $ cccnext/cross_bin/hexagon-unknown-linux-musl-cc \
    -Xpreprocessor -P -E - <<< __SIZEOF_POINTER__
  4

I'm trying to genericize that llvm build script to do all the targets musl and
llvm agree on supporting, which means not passing in -DCMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P=4
because the compiler ALREADY KNOWS THIS... but cmake/config-ix.cmake line 196 is
REALLY going to barf if we didn't explicitly specify it on the command line? Are
the llvm developers not _aware_ of the "cc -E -dM - < /dev/null" trick? Even if
they aren't, why couldn't they just sizeof(void *) in a header file?

*shrug* I can do the above trick in the wrapper script and then provide
-DCMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P=$BLAH on the command line, it just seems DEEPLY pointless
to go to all the trouble of having a ./configure that has to be manually told
stuff the compiler already knows.

Confused,

Rob