[LLVMdev] Forward references to a function

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

Yes, you need a complete dependency graph to JIT a function. You're
expected to wait to JIT your function until you might actually be able
to call it. To do anything else, we'd probably need a way to record
relocations outside the JIT and let you apply them ... which would be
useful but hasn't been at all started yet.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Christophe de Dinechin
<christophe at taodyne.com> wrote:
> JIT::runJITOnFunctionUnlocked makes sure that functions referenced by the current function are JIT-ed. In my case, I may be compiling foo(), during which I notice that I need to build bar(), which refers to foo(). The compiler dies JIT-ing foo() because it's not done yet. Specifically, I'm in the middle of generating one of the BBs of foo(), so it doesn't have a terminating instruction and I assert with:
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> Assertion failed: (T && "getTerminator returned null!"), function SuccIterator, file /Users/ddd/Development/llvm/include/llvm/Support/CFG.h, line 99.
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> I have checked that ExecutionEnding::DisableLazyCompilation() fixes it. Am I supposed to enable lazy JIT in that case? That's not really what i want, what I really would like is to be able to state that a function is "in progress" to make sure it doesn't get added to the pending list. Much like a forward reference in C.
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> Thanks in advance,
> Christophe
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