[LLVMdev] JIT and array pointers

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Paul wrote:
> I'm trying to pass an array pointer to my run-time generated module, and
> after a long time of searching for the answer, the only thing I got was
> a headache. Basically I have a few arrays (few megabytes which will
> sometimes be accessed as 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 bit binary / fp values), that
> will be modified by both the generated module, and my main c program, so
> I would like to put those into global variables. I also tried passing it
> as a function argument (with argument type PointerType::get
> (Type::UIntTy)), and failed miserably. I feel lost. Right now I got only
> a small module with some simple operations (big thanks to the examples,
> they really help a lot). Maybe its because I'm not a c++ guy, but I
> really want to use llvm, especially because of it's nice job at
> optimizing code. And I only need a few basic building blocks to get
> things started.

There are many possible ways to do this, can you be a bit more specific 
about what you're trying to do?

-Chris

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