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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Is there a code example or maybe a documentation about this subject? Sadly it is an important part of my project to get the addresses of the constructors and destructors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I really ran out of ideas though, every time when I try to look them up, they seem to be gone already .w.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> David Blaikie <dblaikie@gmail.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 December 2019 20:52<br>
<b>To:</b> Gaier, Bjoern <Bjoern.Gaier@horiba.com>; Lang Hames <lhames@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [llvm-dev] Moving to ORCv2 - Where are my global constructors and destructors?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:lhames@gmail.com">+Lang Hames</a> owner/author of the ORC JIT (though I think he's out of office at the moment, so replies from him might be delayed).<br>
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I believe there's a way to wire up the global ctors, but I don't know the details unfortunately - perhaps someone else will chime in if/before Lang gets a chance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 5:53 AM Gaier, Bjoern via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Heyho,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Recently I tried out the ORCv2 JIT, especially the LLJIT. I gotta say, that I really like the new interface and the way you use it! However there is one thing
I’m missing. I wrote a small bit code file, which should force having a global constructor.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">int</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> wuff();</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">__declspec</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">(</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">noinline</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">)
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">int</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> miau()</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">{</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> printf(</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Huhuhu"</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">return</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> wuff();</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">}</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">int</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> x = miau();</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">When I parse this IR file in my JIT and go through the ‘globals()’ of the llvm::Module, then I will encounter a symbol with the following name:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">“_GLOBAL__sub_I_VectorBIOS.cpp” where VectorBIOS.cpp was the name of the source file I compiled to the bit code.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">I then wanted to get the address of that symbol - from the MCJIT times I remember, that those functions are the global constructors, but when calling lookup on
that name, I was not able to find the symbol.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">So I tried a different way:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">llvm::</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF">GlobalVariable</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
*var = </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:gray">module</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:teal">-></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">getNamedGlobal(</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"llvm.global_ctors"</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> llvm::</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF">ConstantArray</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
*InitList = (llvm::</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF">ConstantArray</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">*)var->getInitializer();</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">int</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> n = 0; n < InitList->getNumOperands(); n++)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> llvm::</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF">ConstantStruct</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
*CS = (llvm::</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF">ConstantStruct</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">*)InitList->getOperand(n);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">I then printed the name of the llvm::Function but it was exactly the name I expected “_GLOBAL__sub_I_VectorBIOS.cpp”. This code was executed before I added module
to the JIT. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">For various reasons I wanted to store the address to the constructor – so I don’t want to call the LLJIT runConstructor – simply because I want to execute those
functions later, when the LLJIT does not exist anymore.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">I hope someone can help me with this…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Kind Greetings</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Björn</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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