[LLVMdev] making trampolines more portable

[Eli Friedman]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eric Smith<eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
> Eli Friedman wrote:
>  > Also, for lack of an intrinsic, there's a relatively easy workaround:
>  > you can declare a global containing the correct size, then link in a
>  > small target-specific .bc with the definition right before code
>  > generation.
>
> So why can't LLVM provide that global?  I don't care whether it's a
> global, intrinsic, or whatever.

I didn't say we wouldn't accept a patch.  It's just that up until now
nobody has particularly cared because trampolines aren't used very
much.

-Eli