[LLVMdev] another experimental patch for bug 2606

[Garrison Venn]

Will do

Garrison

On Feb 26, 2010, at 21:18, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:

> Eek! I'm going to lose track of the threads if you start a new one
> every time you update the patch. Consider using
> http://codereview.appspot.com/?
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Garrison Venn <gvenn.cfe.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> Attached you will find an experimental patch which allows me to play with a
>> derived JIT class. With this patch
>> I've alleviated my concerns with forcing cross module behavior for all users
>> of JIT. However this introduces some
>> new semantics, and kind of circumvents the EngineBuilder API. More important
>> though, I have not addressed
>> any concern about using stub functions in eager compilation mode. I don't
>> yet understand this concern since
>> these stubs are compile time only, and it seems that the pending function
>> system inherently uses stubs. Anyway
>> I'm sure my understanding will get fixed soon enough. :-) The new code is
>> NOT commented.
>> This patch was NOT attached to 2606. Rather I feel this patch
>> is experimental in nature. As before I tried to use "GMV Mod"
>> as comments to mark my modifications as long as they did not
>> involve introducing new files. If one is interested and wants
>> to use this patch, one should use the test cases found in  2606 and modify
>> them in the following ways.
>> 1) Add: #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/CrossModuleJIT.h"
>> 2) Add the call: LLVMSetupForCrossModuleJITUse();
>> before using the EngineBuilder API
>> For example take:
>> ExecutionEngine* EE = EngineBuilder(M).create();
>> and turn it into:
>> LLVMSetupForCrossModuleJITUse();
>> ExecutionEngine* EE = EngineBuilder(M).create();
>> I wrote this somewhat fast so caveat emptor.
>> Garrison
>> 
>> 
>>