The Linux kernel has a make macro called cc-option that invokes the
compiler with an option in isolation to see if it is supported before
adding it to CFLAGS. The exit code of the compiler is used to determine
if the flag is supported and should be added to the compiler invocation.
A call to cc-option with '-mno-outline-atomics' was added to prevent
linking errors with newer GCC versions but this call succeeds with a
non-AArch64 target because there is no warning from clang with
'-mno-outline-atomics', just '-moutline-atomics'. Because the call
succeeds and adds '-mno-outline-atomics' to the compiler invocation,
there is a warning from LLVM because the 'outline-atomics target
feature is only supported by the AArch64 backend.
$ echo | clang -target x86_64 -moutline-atomics -Werror -x c -c -o /dev/null -
clang-14: error: The 'x86_64' architecture does not support -moutline-atomics; flag ignored [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]
$ echo $?
1
$ echo | clang -target x86_64 -mno-outline-atomics -Werror -x c -c -o /dev/null -
'-outline-atomics' is not a recognized feature for this target (ignoring feature)
$ echo $?
0
This does not match GCC's behavior, which errors when the flag is added
to a non-AArch64 target.
$ echo | gcc -moutline-atomics -x c -c -o /dev/null -
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-moutline-atomics’; did you mean ‘-finline-atomics’?
$ echo | gcc -mno-outline-atomics -x c -c -o /dev/null -
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mno-outline-atomics’; did you mean ‘-fno-inline-atomics’?
$ echo | aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -moutline-atomics -x c -c -o /dev/null -
$ echo | aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -mno-outline-atomics -x c -c -o /dev/null -
To get closer to GCC's behavior, issue a warning when
'-mno-outline-atomics' is used without an AArch64 triple and do not add
'{-,+}outline-atomic" to the list of target features in these cases.
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1552
Reviewed By: melver, nickdesaulniers
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D116128
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