Hi Ben, On 19 January 2017 at 01:43, Ben Crocker <bcroc...@redhat.com> wrote: > If llvm::sys::getHostCPUName() returns "generic", override > it with "pwr8" (on PPC64LE). > > This is a work-around for a bug in LLVM: a table entry for "POWER8NVL" > is missing, resulting in (big-endian) "generic" being returned on > little-endian Power8NVL systems. The result is that code that > attempts to load the least significant 32 bits of a 64-bit quantity in > memory loads the wrong half. > > This omission should be fixed in the next version of LLVM (4.0), > but this work-around should be left in place in case some > future version of POWER<n> also ends up unrepresented in LLVM's table. > Not sure how others feel, but imho you really want to have this/similar comment in the code.
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