[LLVMdev] JIT + tail cals

[Reid Spencer]

Boxedsim was nuked just before the 1.5 release. It was buggy and we
never got it working. Chances are your llvm-test tree is out of date?

Reid.

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 18:39 -0700, Jeff Cohen wrote:
> VC++ builds are working again.
> 
> However, llvm-test is broken.  The configured makefile is bad:
> 
> # Path to the boxed-sim source code
> @USE_BOXEDSIM@
> BOXEDSIM_ROOT := @BOXEDSIM_ROOT@
> 
> 
> Jeff Cohen wrote:
> 
> > Chris Lattner wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Chris Lattner wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yup, something like this should work.  Two comments though:
> >>> 2. I haven't done much testing with the JIT and tail calls.  I 
> >>> wouldn't be
> >>>   suprised if there are minor issues that need to be fixed.  I will try
> >>>   to take a look and see what remains to be done over the next 
> >>> couple of
> >>>   days.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> As I expected, there were issues.  I fixed the following two problems:
> >>
> >> 1. The JIT didn't know where a call came from when it was a tail call 
> >> (jmp
> >>    doesn't push a return address).
> >> 2. The JIT was clobbering EAX/EDX when lazily compiling a function, and
> >>    X86 fastcc wants to pass values in those registers.
> >>
> >> I think things are working now, give it a spin and lemme know if you 
> >> hit any problems.
> >>
> >> -Chris
> >>
> > VC++ build is broken as a result of this change.  I'll get it fixed soon.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > LLVM Developers mailing list
> > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
> > http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
> >
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
> LLVM Developers mailing list
> LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
> http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20050519/2da40ceb/attachment.sig>