rengolin added inline comments.

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Comment at: lib/Driver/ToolChain.cpp:485
@@ +484,3 @@
+    if ((ARM::parseArchProfile(Suffix) == ARM::PK_M) ||
+        (InputType != types::TY_PP_Asm &&
+         Args.hasFlag(options::OPT_mthumb, options::OPT_mno_thumb, 
ThumbDefault)))
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t.p.northover wrote:
> rengolin wrote:
> > labrinea wrote:
> > > Alternatively we could remove the check of InputType. I am not sure why 
> > > this and the above comment are present anyway.
> > I agree with you, this logic is inconsistent.
> > 
> > Historically, ARM assembly (especially inline assembly) is assumed ARM 
> > unless told otherwise. This is why you have to specify ".thumb" and not 
> > ".arm". However, that doesn't mean the assembly file *has* to be ARM, even 
> > if the arch name is "thumbvN" or if "-mthumb" is specified.
> > 
> > Not even GNU tools behave in such odd ways, so I think we should be 
> > consistent. If the triple is thumb, asm is thumb. If we have -mthumb, asm 
> > is thumb. If not, it's arm. Precisely how everything else works, so it's 
> > only logical that we should remove the InputType check.
> I suspect the issue is with our weirdness. When I remove the TY_PP_Asm check 
> "clang -arch armv7 -c tmp.s" defaults to Thumb-mode. I think I'd be lynched 
> by the OS-folks if that changed.
> 
> (That's basically the entire content of the Radar Chad referred to in his 
> original addition).
Well, that's clearly a bug. I'm ok with this going is as it is, but would be 
good to create a new bug to solve this mess.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D14121



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