Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] scripts: generate_rust_target: enable building on RISC-V

[Conor Dooley]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 07:11:17PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 6:48 PM Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For instance, to disable the compressed instructions, from what I can
> tell, the flag I mentioned seems to work, so that is fine.

To me, using flags is a good fit given that's what we do elsewhere,
and there won't be a mix of stuff that is done conditionally in a
script and conditionally in a Makefile.

> However,
> for something like tweaking the data layout for `n64` instead of
> `n32:64`, I am not aware of a way to do so via a flag (but I see newer
> LLVM uses `n32:64`, so that may be the better one anyway:
> https://godbolt.org/z/Eh4cfdeMr).

Yeah, I had looked at the blame for the targets earlier today and
noticed that it had been changed. Sadly rustc's commit is lacking
any justification whatsoever for the change, so I was not going to
really comment on that until I had looked.

> So it all depends on whether you are happy with what the flags
> approach already give you.
> 
> I hope that clarifies a bit!

Ye, thanks. I'll give it a go when I have a bit of time this week.

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