delcypher added a comment.

In D96572#2563707 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D96572#2563707>, @jansvoboda11 
wrote:

> In D96572#2561216 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D96572#2561216>, @delcypher wrote:
>
>> @jansvoboda11 I noticed that the `Options.td` file is making use of some 
>> fancy mixins that mean the option gets automatically marshalled by the 
>> frontend into the codegen options :). I tried this out using the patch to 
>> this patch and all my tests seem to pass. Should I be using these mixins (I 
>> don't know how stable they are because this looks like a new feature). Am I 
>> using them properly? It seems that the driver still has to parse the option 
>> manually (which is actually what I want) but the frontend automagically 
>> parses the option and modifies the right codegen option for me.
>
> Hi, yes, this is a new feature. The option generation is not being enforced 
> in any way yet, but the automatic marshalling should work. You can test it by 
> running your `clang -cc1` commands with the `-round-trip-args` flag (or 
> `clang` with `-Xclang -round-trip-args`). With this option, the original 
> `cc1` command line is first parsed into a dummy `CompilerInvocation`, which 
> is used to generate new command line. The new command line is what is then 
> used to create the real `CompilerInvocation`.
>
> As you've correctly discovered, this does not interact with the driver in any 
> way.
>
> I'll be sending an email to cfe-dev about this shortly. Your marshalling code 
> seems correct to me. If something does not work, check out the patch with 
> documentation D95790 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D95790> and feel free to let 
> me know.

@jansvoboda11 Thanks. If it's okay with you I'll make the change to use the new 
marshalling infrastructure in a separate patch 
(https://reviews.llvm.org/D97327) because I may need to back port this patch to 
an older LLVM branch.


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