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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>For our SHAVE target I have re-used ‘</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>__attribute__((dllexport))</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>’ to allow me to create indirect address tables for symbols with this annotation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>However, with almost every release of LLVM and CLang my implementation is broken and I have to rework my implementation. For the most part, the existing ‘</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>dllexport</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>’ attribute does everything I require and makes more sense for me to pass it through CLang/LLVM until it reaches our back-end where it emits the IAT support rather than adding my own new attribute.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>This got broken again with v3.8 and this time the controls are more strict on Windows supporting targets. I thought that before I go in an make another set of changes to re-enable this with our target, that I would ask first if there anybody has any advice or recommendation for how to “borrow” this attribute for non-Windows targets? The problem is principally CLang rather than LLVM, so I would like to find a good and future-proof way of adapting CLang to enable this attribute on my target.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> MartinO<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Martin J. O’Riordan Email: <a href="mailto:Martin.ORiordan@movidius.com">Martin.ORiordan@movidius.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Compiler Development Web: <a href="http://www.movidius.com/">www.movidius.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Movidius Ltd. Skype: moviMartinO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>1st Floor, O’Connell Bridge House, d’Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>