[LLVMdev] Partial evaluation and LLVM (2) (Chris Lattner)

[Chris Lattner]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Stéphane Letz wrote:
> Thanks, it works with the example you gave, but how is this method
> supposed to work with a C++ method considering the object fields it
> uses as "free" variables?
> These object fields are not global variables of the module?

I can't and won't.  You have to model specializable values as globals or 
something else easily changable by the optimizer.  If you want, you can 
write a custom optimization pass to substitute any value you want, but 
this is certainly the most straight-forward way to do it.

-Chris

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