[SR-10550] Help for -target option should say it's a triple

[beccadax]

Previous ID	SR-10550
Radar	None
Original Reporter	@beccadax
Type	Improvement
Status	Resolved
Resolution	Done

Additional Detail from JIRA

Votes	0
Component/s	Compiler
Labels	Improvement, Driver, StarterBug
Assignee	rayfix (JIRA)
Priority	Medium

md5: fb5fda3df87aa3daf32dfe7cef6ee328

Issue Description:

"swift -help" shows the following output for the -target and -target-variant options:

  -target-variant <value> Generate code that may run on a particular variant of the  deployment target
  -target <value>         Generate code for the given target

This text is incredibly vague. At minimum, it should say <triple> instead of <value> to indicate that this is a target triple; it might even make sense to include an example like "x86_64-apple-macos10.9" in the description.

Command-line options and their help are specified in "include/swift/Option/Options.td". To figure out what you need to change, take a look at how some of the options which have custom names, like -sdk, are specified.

[swift-ci]

Comment by Ray Fix (JIRA)

Made it say,

-target <triple> Generate code for the given target <triple>, such as x86_64-apple-macos10.9

[swift-ci]

Comment by Ray Fix (JIRA)

A PR has been merged addressing this issue.

#25311

[beccadax]

Resolving this since the patch has been merged to master.