[FIXED] How to list supported target architectures in clang?

Issue

Currently I am interested in ARM in general and specifically iPhone/Android targets. But I just want to know more about clang, since it feels to play important role in the years to come.

I tried

clang -cc1 --help|grep -i list
clang -cc1 --help|grep arch|grep -v search
clang -cc1 --help|grep target

 -triple <value>         Specify target triple (e.g. i686-apple-darwin9)

I know clang has -triplet parameter, but how can I list all possible values for it?

I found that clang is very different to gcc in respect to cross compiling, in GCC world you should have separate binary for everything, like PLATFORM_make or PLATFORM_ld (i*86-pc-cygwin i*86-*-linux-gnu etc. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/tree/doc/PLATFORMS)

In clang world, it's only one binary (as I read on some forums). But how do I get the list of supported targets? And if my target it not supported on my distro (Linux/Windows/macOS/whatever) how can I get the one that supports more platform?

If I SVN latest clang like this:

svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk clang

will I get most of platforms?

It looks like Clang was not built with cross compiling in mind right away, but since it's LLVM-based it should be very cross-friendly in theory?

Solution

Starting Clang 11 (trunk), the list of supported target architectures could be handily printed using the newly added -print-targets flag:

$ clang-11 -print-targets
  Registered Targets:
    aarch64    - AArch64 (little endian)
    aarch64_32 - AArch64 (little endian ILP32)
    aarch64_be - AArch64 (big endian)
    amdgcn     - AMD GCN GPUs
    arm        - ARM
    arm64      - ARM64 (little endian)
    arm64_32   - ARM64 (little endian ILP32)
    armeb      - ARM (big endian)
    avr        - Atmel AVR Microcontroller
    bpf        - BPF (host endian)
    bpfeb      - BPF (big endian)
    bpfel      - BPF (little endian)
    hexagon    - Hexagon
    lanai      - Lanai
    mips       - MIPS (32-bit big endian)
    mips64     - MIPS (64-bit big endian)
    mips64el   - MIPS (64-bit little endian)
    mipsel     - MIPS (32-bit little endian)
    msp430     - MSP430 [experimental]
    nvptx      - NVIDIA PTX 32-bit
    nvptx64    - NVIDIA PTX 64-bit
    ppc32      - PowerPC 32
    ppc64      - PowerPC 64
    ppc64le    - PowerPC 64 LE
    r600       - AMD GPUs HD2XXX-HD6XXX
    riscv32    - 32-bit RISC-V
    riscv64    - 64-bit RISC-V
    sparc      - Sparc
    sparcel    - Sparc LE
    sparcv9    - Sparc V9
    systemz    - SystemZ
    thumb      - Thumb
    thumbeb    - Thumb (big endian)
    wasm32     - WebAssembly 32-bit
    wasm64     - WebAssembly 64-bit
    x86        - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above
    x86-64     - 64-bit X86: EM64T and AMD64
    xcore      - XCore

References: LLVM PR, LLVM commit, Clang 11 documentation.

Answered By - valiano

Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (PHPFixing Admin)