[LLVMdev] Dynamic (JIT) type resolution

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Nicolas Geoffray wrote:
> I'm not sure actually how can I do that language specific ;). OK
> currently only Java does that (from what I know), but intrinsics like
> getElementDouble or setElementDouble do look general purpose. Unless,
> I'm too Java-minded?

Focus on the mechanism behind what you want to do, not on what you want to 
do itself :).  Think about a way to separate what you want to accomplish 
from how it gets done.

>> You'll probably want to do this late in the code generator.
> Therefore when instructions are lowered to target-specific instructions?

yep,

-Chris

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