[LLVMdev] non_lazy_ptr question

[Talin]

So, I've got a case where I am attempting to pass the address of a static
symbol from a module written in Tart (the language I am working on), to a
module written in C (which is part of Tart's runtime library). This works
fine on Linux, but fails on OS X because the address being passed is the
"non_lazy_ptr" symbol, not the symbol itself.

In my .bc file, I've got code that looks like this:

  @gc_safepoint_map = external global [0 x i32]     ; <[0 x i32]*> [#uses=1]

  %init = invoke {} @GC_init(i32* getelementptr inbounds ([0 x i32]*
@gc_safepoint_map, i32 0, i32 0))
          to label %nounwind unwind label %catch, !dbg !400 ; <{}> [#uses=0]

In other words, we have an external symbol that is being passed to an
external function. (BTW, gc_safepoint_map is the map of all of the stack
offsets containing pointers, indexed by the program counter address of the
safe point. It's generated by a custom linker pass.)

However, the code that is being generated looks like this:

        movl    L_gc_safepoint_map$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
        movl    %eax, (%esp)
        call    _GC_init

In other words, it's passing the 'non_lazy_ptr' version of the symbol
directly to GC_init, without dereferencing it. This makes the code go boom.

OK, so my question is:

   - Where exactly would this dereference normally occur?
      - Would it be in the calling module (written in bitcode)? If so, do I
      need to generate bitcode to dereference the symbol, or is there
some means
      to do this automatically? If I need to generate the bitcode
myself, how do I
      tell whether the current target is one that needs this?
      - Conversely, would I need to write code on the callee side (written
      in C). In this case, I don't have access to target data, just
cmake config
      variables. Again, I'd need to come up with some test I can write in cmake
      language that lets me know whether or not I need to do the special
      dereference.
      - Alternatively perhaps there is some linker flag I can set that makes
      this problem go away.

Any suggestions?

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-- Talin
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