[LLVMdev] PowerPC JIT available for testing

[Reid Spencer]

FYI .. if you want to see how this works, check out
lib/System/DynamicLibrary.cpp and platform versions of it.

Reid.

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 10:03, Reid Spencer wrote:
> Well, one of these days we'll be using libltdl (libtool's dynamic
> library support) to make the interface to dynamic libraries consistent,
> somewhat portable, and to get rid of system specific differences like
> this.
> 
> Reid.
> 
> On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 10:00, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > This is just a note to mention that the PowerPC JIT is now operational and
> > begging for testing in mainline CVS.  There is one known problem (below),
> > but otherwise it works as well as the static PowerPC backend on the test
> > suite.
> > 
> > The known problem is that the JIT seems unable to resolve calls to
> > external functions that start with "__", such as __eprintf, __moddi3, etc.
> > This appears to be something funny in the darwin implementation of dlsym
> > (returning null for symbols that are valid if they start with __).  If
> > anyone has any ideas of how to make this work, we would love to hear them.
> > :)
> > 
> > -Chris
> 
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