[LLVMdev] Disabling rtti on default build - could it be reverted/re-enabled?
Heikki Kultala
hkultala at cs.tut.fi
Wed Feb 17 03:15:18 PST 2010
We at Tampere University of technology are using LLVM for high-level
optimizations in the compiler for our TTA processor toolkit(TCE)
We have a llvm backend which creates our own intermediate code, and our
own instruction selector after that (as LLVM's machine code cannot
represent the actual machine codes of our processors).
This makes our llvm backend quite different from the ordinary llvm
backends, and we have to link lots of code to same binaries which also
link to llvm libraries.
LLVM 2.7 is dropping rtti on default build, which is a problem to us.
We are using Boost libraries on many places in our code, and Boost has
some heavy usage of type info tricks, which cannot be compiled without
rtti, so we have to keep rtti on for our code.
But our code also implements the llvm backend framework classes, which
are compiled without rtti , which causes problems; we cannot derive from
the non-rtti enabled base classes with derived classes that are compiled
with rtti on.
So could rtti be turned on for default builds of llvm so that we could
continue using (non-customized) llvm libraries for our compiler?
Just having rtti on should not cause you any performance deficits, just
causes some extra typeinfo methods to be created to your binaries, and
these should be quite small so they should not make them much larger.
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