[cfe-dev] Get mangled names C++

[Frank Fuchs]

Ok I need and want native performance - it's a scientific application and
although very complex things will be referred to the core methods I cannot
stop users from writing large loops and complain about the performance. In
the worst case they crash the whole thing ... but I'm willing to take that
risk :D.

Now concerning your answer I do not see how it might help me. If I
understand it correctly you have implemented a way to get information about
the Decl of jitted methods. Now how does that help me, because I still think
I need to declare the mangled names to the JIT, and for this purpose I need
to now them at compile time of the host application.

thx,Frank

2010/7/16 John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com>

> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Frank Fuchs wrote:
> > Well if I understand your view on it correctly then ... yes that is what
> I'm trying to do. However, please allow me to give a more long winded
> description of what I want to do. So I have a rather large Qt/C++
> application and I want to give it some scripting powers (make its
> computational core scriptable from within the application itself). I first
> tried to embed some script language (QtScript and Chaiscript), but they did
> not convince me in terms of their features and performance (although I must
> say that I liked both approaches anyway). Now I want to embed clang into my
> application to execute small C++ scripts/ user supplied methods. In the
> examples for clang there is an app for that ;),  well almost. The
> clang-interpreter example takes C/C++ code compiles and runs it. Now the
> "only" thing I have to do is to enhance it by exposing my host application
> methods to the jitted user supplied scripts. It can be done by either
> wrapping all of my methods in extern "C" functions. But this is not what I
> want.
> > If I drop the extern "C" and use C++ headers instead I get error messages
> like "LLVM error: program used external function '_Z10testCallerv()' which
> could not be resolved". Of course it could not be resolved ... since I was
> not able/willing to guess the name-mangling while declaring the the external
> function to the clang-interpreter. I used declared "void testCaller()". Now
> if I change my declaration to the mangled name it works. I can call C++
> methods which reside in the host-application from my scripts. However, I do
> not want to mangle all the names of my to-be exposed functions by hand.
> There must be a method for that as well - clang must have it already.
>
> I actually recently introduced a hack to support this sort of in-process
> JITting (to support LLDB, which does something similar).  It's not at all
> documented, and (like most of Clang's APIs) it's subject to change at a
> whim, but it's probably easier than repeatedly mangling things.  When
> setting up your environment, set the EmitDeclMetadata flag on the
> CodeGenOpts.  After compilation, the module will have a named metadata
> called "clang.global.decl.ptrs"; each of the operands of that will be a
> ConstantStruct containing a GlobalValue and a ConstantInt whose value can be
> casted to Decl*.  Not the prettiest interface imaginable, but it's there.
>
> That said, I would really recommend Lua if you're looking for an embedded
> scripting language and you don't need native-code performance.  It's a *lot*
> safer than letting users run arbitrary C++ code within your process.
>
> John.
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