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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-10-14 11:43:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2021-10-14 11:43:38 (GMT) |
| commit | c5a24cd52b9bd59d7c162448077a491bfa88cbf5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2be4c0f237ee0163b9facd4fe6aee86107d9cc0d /Help | |
| parent | 6bfe5f24da381bda4a7cfc334fe04bc7c7b73abc (diff) | |
| parent | f2262fab51d6d7625303bb2ba2a4c617046b3ca0 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'doc-frontend-variant' into release-3.22
f2262fab51 Help: Add documentation for CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT
ffb54e2350 Help: Add more documentation for CMAKE_<LANG>_SIMULATE_ID
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !6621
Diffstat (limited to 'Help')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/manual/cmake-variables.7.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT.rst | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_SIMULATE_ID.rst | 6 |
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-variables.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-variables.7.rst index 17f04ab..a2103f7 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-variables.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-variables.7.rst @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Variables that Provide Information /variable/CMAKE_JOB_POOL_PRECOMPILE_HEADER /variable/CMAKE_JOB_POOLS /variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_AR + /variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT /variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_RANLIB /variable/CMAKE_LANG_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX /variable/CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..128b1fb --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT.rst @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT +-------------------------------------- + +.. versionadded:: 3.14 + +Identification string of the compiler frontend variant. + +Some compilers have multiple, different frontends for accepting command +line options. (For example ``Clang`` originally only had a frontend +compatible with the ``GNU`` compiler but since its port to Windows +(``Clang-Cl``) it now also supports a frontend compatible with ``MSVC``.) +When CMake detects such a compiler it sets this +variable to what would have been the :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_ID` for +the compiler whose frontend it resembles. + +.. note:: + In other words, this variable describes what command line options + and language extensions the compiler frontend expects. diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_SIMULATE_ID.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_SIMULATE_ID.rst index 15c87a1..3226352 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_SIMULATE_ID.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_SIMULATE_ID.rst @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ CMAKE_<LANG>_SIMULATE_ID ------------------------ -Identification string of "simulated" compiler. +Identification string of the "simulated" compiler. Some compilers simulate other compilers to serve as drop-in replacements. When CMake detects such a compiler it sets this variable to what would have been the :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_ID` for the simulated compiler. + +.. note:: + In other words, this variable describes the ABI compatibility + of the generated code. |