<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:51, Jan Rehders wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>this looks very promising. Do you have any plans to add bindings for the use of an ExecutionEngine, especially recompileAndRelinkFunction?</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'd considered it on the basis that others may find it useful, but I have no immediate need for it.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Patches are welcome. Binding a method is trivial:</div><div> <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20071001/054282.html">http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20071001/054282.html</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And even binding a new library is straightforward:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>1. Add C bindings for the desired functionality. (Strictly speaking, this is optional.)</div><div> <a href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/include/llvm-c/Analysis.h?view=markup&pathrev=42707">http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/include/llvm-c/Analysis.h?view=markup&pathrev=42707</a></div><div> <a href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/Analysis.cpp?view=markup&pathrev=42707">http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/Analysis.cpp?view=markup&pathrev=42707</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>2. Copy up a bindings project.</div><div><div> <a href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/bindings/ocaml/analysis/?pathrev=42707">http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/bindings/ocaml/analysis/?pathrev=42707</a></div><div> <a href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/bindings/ocaml/Makefile?r1=42707&r2=42706&pathrev=42707">http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/bindings/ocaml/Makefile?r1=42707&r2=42706&pathrev=42707</a></div><br></div><div>3. And add tests for it.</div><div> <a href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/test/Bindings/Ocaml/analysis.ml?view=markup&pathrev=42707">http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/test/Bindings/Ocaml/analysis.ml?view=markup&pathrev=42707</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I've build an interactive toplevel implemented in OCaml and I have to pull of some stunts to be able to change the definition of a function. (emit a .ll file containing the code, looking up the function and calling removeBody, then reading the .ll file back in using ParseAssemblyString). I noticed that functions are represented as an llvalue which makes turning it into a Function* unsafe if I'm correct?</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Yes, llvalues are very weakly typed. If assertions are enabled in the LLVM build, then any misuses will be caught by the 'wrap' and 'unwrap' helpers in the C bindings.</div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div>— Gordon<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>