[LLVMdev] LLVM JIT--Function Specialization and Stack rewriting

[Eric Christopher]

On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Will Dietz wrote:

> I'm looking at using LLVM to do some dynamic transforms of code, and
> was wondering if someone could comment on the current status of how
> LLVM handles function specialization, in particular how it
> updates/rewrites existing (previously emitted) code (possibly
> rewriting stack of currently executing threads as appropriate).
> 
> Does anything like this already exist?  Are there projects that do
> anything similar?

Pretty much you'll need to do all of this by hand, though the APIs that
exist in the JIT and Module classes should be sufficient to do this.

You'll probably want to save on the client side the addresses for
individual functions.

-eric