[LLVMdev] Memory allocation (or deallocation) model?

[Benjamin Smedberg]

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I've been reading the headers and
http://llvm.org/releases/2.1/docs/ProgrammersManual.html and I'm still
confused about a pretty fundamental point... who is expected to clean up
various objects when we're finished with them, and when?

Let's say I've created a module, retrieved a bunch of types, created a
function, a basic block, and instructions and inserted them all together.
I've linked it all to an execution engine, and gotten a function pointer to
actually call using getPointerToFunctionOrStub:

* Does the function pointer stay good as long as the execution engine is alive?
* Once the function is JITted, will all those types/instructions/functions
still be allocated in memory?
** If so, is there a way to explicitly free them?
* Can I "delete executionEngine" to free up all the memory?

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Benjamin Smedberg
Platform Guru
Mozilla Corporation
benjamin at smedbergs.us
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/
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