The module currently stores the target triple as a string. This means
that any code that wants to actually use the triple first has to
instantiate a Triple, which is somewhat expensive. The change in #121652
caused a moderate compile-time regression due to this. While it would be
easy enough to work around, I think that architecturally, it makes more
sense to store the parsed Triple in the module, so that it can always be
directly queried.
For this change, I've opted not to add any magic conversions between
std::string and Triple for backwards-compatibilty purses, and instead
write out needed Triple()s or str()s explicitly. This is because I think
a decent number of them should be changed to work on Triple as well, to
avoid unnecessary conversions back and forth.
The only interesting part in this patch is that the default triple is
Triple("") instead of Triple() to preserve existing behavior. The former
defaults to using the ELF object format instead of unknown object
format. We should fix that as well.
With the changes in 48d0eb518, the CodeGenOptions used to emit .pcm
files with -fmodule-format=obj (-gmodules) were the ones from the
original invocation, rather than the ones specifically crafted for
outputting the pcm. This was causing the pcm to be written with only the
debug info and without the __clangast section in some cases (e.g. -O2).
This unforunately was not covered by existing tests, because compiling
and loading a module within a single compilation load the ast content
from the in-memory module cache rather than reading it from the pcm file
that was written. This broke bootstrapping a build of clang with modules
enabled on Darwin.
rdar://143418834
Fixes one of the crashes uncovered by
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/118710
`getOrCreateStandaloneType` asserts that a `DIType` was created for the
requested type. If the `Decl` was marked `nodebug`, however, we can't
generate debug-info for it, so we would previously trigger the assert.
For now keep the assertion around and check the `nodebug` at the
callsite.
