[LLVMdev] Lightweight code loader

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Alexander Friedman wrote:
> Would it be possible (ie, relatively straitforward) to do the
> following: Take the code in module A, compile it with the JIT (since
> we cannot make libraries in Windows), and save the resulting binary
> goo in some file. Later (in a different instance of the runtime), with
> some much smaller sized loader, read in the file and link that code to
> the runtime. The platforms we care about this working on is the x86,
> ppc, and sparc v9.

Yes, this would be straight-forward.  The output of the code generator is 
a bunch of bytes of machine code and relocations to perform on it.  This 
is exactly what you would need to do this.

> While it would be nice to be able to build a runtime that only
> contains the absolute minimal, this seems rather non-trivial, but
> maybe I am wrong. If this is indeed involved, fraught with danger (ie,
> would make it impossible to debug) etc, let me know as well.If there
> is some other clever (or obvious) way to accomplish the same thing,
> I'd love to hear any ideas.

Another option might be to just fix building .dll's on windows :)

-Chris

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