Re: [PATCH] config.sub: recognise ARM64EC machine type

[Sam James]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Billy Laws <blaws05@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I just put what MinGW was using here since that is what I'm targeting,
>> I assumed that tests should represent what was actually being used.
>
> The vendor name in configuration tuples is more or less irrelevant these
> days and may be disregarded.  In light of the sheer quantity of
> operating systems that support PCs, what is this meant to return?
>
>   $ ./config.sub pc
>
> or even
>
>   $ ./config.sub x86_64-pc
>
>> LLVM doesn't even support "winnt" in triples, only "win32" and
>> "windows".  "-windows-msvc" is
>> also used throughout its testsuite.
>
> LLVM is not part of the GNU project, nor does it abide with the rules
> and conventions thereof.  We are under no obligation to contort
> ourselves to match their expectations.

This would make more sense if
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/commit/?id=91f6a7f616b161c25ba2001861a40e662e18c4ad
hadn't been merged though.