[LLVMdev] Vtables for non c++ languages

[Talin]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldridge at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm working on implementing a simple functional language in LLVM. It's
> statically typed, but I'd like to a have some simple multimethods involved.
> Does LLVM have some intrinsics for handling something like C++ vtables? Or
> do I need to implement my own way of handling single-dispatch functions?
>

You'll need to do that yourself. A vtable is just an array of function
pointers.


> Thanks,
>
> Timothy
>
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