gcc/config/{i386,s390} support -mnop-mcount. We currently only support
-mnop-mcount for SystemZ. The function attribute "mnop-mcount" is
ignored on other targets.
gcc/config/{i386,s390} support -mfentry. We currently only support
-mfentry for X86 and SystemZ. TargetOpcode::FENTRY_CALL is not handled
on other targets.
% clang -target aarch64 -pg -mfentry a.c -c
fatal error: error in backend: Not supported instr: <MCInst 21>
-mfentry, -mrecord-mcount, and -mnop-mcount were invented for Linux
ftrace. Linux uses $(call cc-option-yn,-mrecord-mcount) to detect if the
specific feature is available. Reject unsupported features so that Linux
build system will not wrongly consider them available and cause
build/runtime failures.
Note, GCC has stricter checks that we do not implement, e.g. -fpic/-fpie
-fnop-mcount is not allowed on x86, -fpic/-fpie -mfentry is not allowed
on x86-32.
GCC's x86 and s390 ports support -mrecord-mcount. Other ports reject the
option.
aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mrecord-mcount’
Allowing this option can cause failures when building Linux kernel for
aarch64, powerpc64, etc, which will think the feature is available if
the clang command returns 0.
Fangrui Song