[LLVMdev] Debugging a NULL return from the ExecutionEngine

[Michael Muller]

Reid Kleckner wrote:
> Also note that there is a third optional std::string* argument which
> if non-NULL gets set to an appropriate error message.

Cool, thanks.  I wasn't sure how to work that :-)
> 
> Reid
> 
> 2009/12/12 Török Edwin <edwintorok at gmail.com>:
> > On 2009-12-12 18:19, Michael Muller wrote:
> >> Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade from LLVM 2.5 -> 2.6, and when I create my
> >> execution engine (ExecutionEngine::create(module)) I get back a null.
> >>
> >> What's the easiest way for me to find out what went wrong?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You probably didn't call InitializeNativeTarget and ended up with no JIT
> > support.

Nope.  Did that.  It looks like native support wasn't getting registered,
though, which is odd because I thought InitializeNativeTarget() would take
care of that.  Including <llvm/ExecutionEngine/JIT.h> fixes it.

> >
> > Best regards,
> > --Edwin
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