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diff --git a/include/llvm/ADT/Triple.h b/include/llvm/ADT/Triple.h
index feade6a56fbd..8dca3c1cfb1b 100644
--- a/include/llvm/ADT/Triple.h
+++ b/include/llvm/ADT/Triple.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class Twine;
/// Triple - Helper class for working with target triples.
///
-/// Target triples are strings in the format of:
+/// Target triples are strings in the canonical form:
/// ARCHITECTURE-VENDOR-OPERATING_SYSTEM
/// or
/// ARCHITECTURE-VENDOR-OPERATING_SYSTEM-ENVIRONMENT
@@ -35,20 +35,11 @@ class Twine;
/// from the components of the target triple to well known IDs.
///
/// At its core the Triple class is designed to be a wrapper for a triple
-/// string; it does not normally change or normalize the triple string, instead
-/// it provides additional APIs to parse normalized parts out of the triple.
+/// string; the constructor does not change or normalize the triple string.
+/// Clients that need to handle the non-canonical triples that users often
+/// specify should use the normalize method.
///
-/// One curiosity this implies is that for some odd triples the results of,
-/// e.g., getOSName() can be very different from the result of getOS(). For
-/// example, for 'i386-mingw32', getOS() will return MinGW32, but since
-/// getOSName() is purely based on the string structure that will return the
-/// empty string.
-///
-/// Clients should generally avoid using getOSName() and related APIs unless
-/// they are familiar with the triple format (this is particularly true when
-/// rewriting a triple).
-///
-/// See autoconf/config.guess for a glimpse into what they look like in
+/// See autoconf/config.guess for a glimpse into what triples look like in
/// practice.
class Triple {
public:
@@ -117,6 +108,9 @@ private:
mutable OSType OS;
bool isInitialized() const { return Arch != InvalidArch; }
+ static ArchType ParseArch(StringRef ArchName);
+ static VendorType ParseVendor(StringRef VendorName);
+ static OSType ParseOS(StringRef OSName);
void Parse() const;
public:
@@ -134,6 +128,16 @@ public:
}
/// @}
+ /// @name Normalization
+ /// @{
+
+ /// normalize - Turn an arbitrary machine specification into the canonical
+ /// triple form (or something sensible that the Triple class understands if
+ /// nothing better can reasonably be done). In particular, it handles the
+ /// common case in which otherwise valid components are in the wrong order.
+ static std::string normalize(StringRef Str);
+
+ /// @}
/// @name Typed Component Access
/// @{