Microsoft Visual C++ first comes to my mind.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote:

> Which C compilers do we have that are not capable of producing ELF
> binaries?   GCC on Windows maybe?  That's not even a supported test
> configuration.
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:29 PM Pavel Labath via Phabricator <
> revi...@reviews.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> labath added a comment.
>>
>> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D32434#735877, @eugene wrote:
>>
>> > Is it  really necessary to check in binary ELF files?
>> >  I understand that we don't always have a C compiler capable of
>> producing ELF files, but maybe it's ok to skip this test on those platforms.
>>
>>
>> That is something very I am very much trying to avoid, as that means
>> people on those platforms cannot validate their changes. (And I'm not sure
>> if I even want to be running a compiler for a test at this level, as that
>> introduces a level of nondeterminism.)
>>
>> That said, I do agree we should be carefully about adding lots of binary
>> bloat. I have been trying to put this off until we have more of these, but
>> maybe I could try integrating this with obj2yaml -- it does not seem to
>> preserve program headers, but I don't actually need those for this test.
>>
>>
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D32434
>>
>>
>>
>>


-- 
Thanks,
Eugene Zemtsov.
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