On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Todd Fiala via swift-lldb-dev <
swift-lldb-...@swift.org> wrote:
>
> On Dec 28, 2015, at 10:39 AM, William Dillon via swift-lldb-dev <
> swift-lldb-...@swift.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> Yes, I think that LLDB is more or less working with Swift on ARM. We can
> start the REPL and do some tasks with it, though it isn’t all that reliable
> yet.
>
>
> I’d love to hear about the reliability piece if you have more details
> there!
>
> There are two files in the swift-lldb PR that I merged in from Joe Bell
> that fixed the REPL. I think, however, than they would need to go to the
> lldb.llvm.org repo, rather than the swift one.
>
>
> I think I’ve seen the llvm.org side of that patch. Somebody else and I
> had a question about some static casts in there, but we’ll catch up on that
> side if it is the same patch I’m thinking about.
>
> There is a question about that, though. Joe added armv7l into the
> ArchSpec table, but I don’t think that armv7l is a real subtype. I’ve been
> very confused by the ARM nomenclature on linux (I don’t think I’m alone
> here), and I think that armv7l means armv7 little endian. So, should these
> get converted to armv7 somewhere else and revert the changes to the
> ArchSpec table?
>
>
> This is a great question that I am not the right resource to answer. *Greg
> or Jason,* any thoughts here on question of arm subtypes? (My first take
> is that I’d expect each subtype to represent a different set of features
> and instructions available, and not be used solely for an endianness
> designation, but that’s not an area I do much work in).
>
We have discussed this before with Tim Northover, and he suggested that we
canonicalize armv7l to armv7 when parsing the triple from the command line.
Dmitri
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