[llvm-dev] Errors linking with LLVM 5.0 - dump() missing

[Dibyendu Majumdar via llvm-dev]

Hi Matthias,

On 25 September 2017 at 22:43, Matthias Braun <mbraun at apple.com> wrote:
> The dump() methods are only meant to be used in debuggers and are only available in debug builds of LLVM. There are often similar print() methods available though.
>

I am not sure how this is the case seeing that the dump() function has
been working in release builds in all the LLVM releases I have used
(from 3.5 to 4.0).

>
>> On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:40 AM, Dibyendu Majumdar via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

>> I am finding that my project that previously successfully built with
>> versions 3.5 to 4.0 is now failing to link because of missing
>> implementation for dump(). Errors I get are:
>>
>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>
>>  "llvm::Type::dump() const", referenced from:
>>      ravi::LuaLLVMTypes::dump() in ravi_llvmtypes.cpp.o
>>      dump_content(lua_State*) in ravi_llvmluaapi.cpp.o
>>  "llvm::Value::dump() const", referenced from:
>>      dump_content(lua_State*) in ravi_llvmluaapi.cpp.o
>>  "llvm::Module::dump() const", referenced from:
>>
>> This appears to be a change that is not documented in the release
>> notes of 5.0. Please can someone describe what the change is and how I
>> can detect whether the dump() implementation is available or not?
>>
>> It also seems strange that dump() implementation was removed - surely
>> it would have been better ti stub it so that client code does not
>> break?
>>
>> Regards
>> Dibyendu
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