[LLVMdev] Forcing JIT of all functions before execution starts

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Sarah Thompson wrote:
> (I have verified that just going through all the Functions in the Module
> and calling getPointerToFunction for each in turn actually seems to work
> -- I just wanted to make sure that this is sensible)

Yep, that is both sensible and is the recommended approach.  However, the 
JIT should lock itself (using pthreads calls) to prevent itself from dying 
in a multithreaded situation.  If you're using pthreads then you found a 
bug.

One feature you might be interested in is the EE->DisableLazyCompilation() 
method.  This will cause the jit to abort if you ever ask it to do lazy 
compilation.  This is a useful 'assertion' mode if you think your code 
should compile everything ahead of time and want to know if you ever 
forgot something. :)

-Chris

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