[LLVMdev] JIT, FFI

[Reid Kleckner]

Ouch, I see what you mean.  It seems this bug can be fixed by freeing
the stub function and it's associated machine code before returning
from runFunction.  You should file a PR about it.

Reid

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Christian S. Perone
<christian.perone.listas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to LLVM and I had a question about it: when we call the
> JIT::runFunction, since llvm doesn't has a full FFI, there are some cases in
> which the JIT needs to codegen a stub function to call the function we are
> interested, my question is: this stub function will remains in the module
> until when ? What are the most efficient way to remove it from the module
> and memory ? For a little quantity of calls this doesn't matter, but when I
> call a function using "runFunction" let's say 100 times with differente
> arguments, it will create 100 function stubs.
>
> Thank you !
>
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