[LLVMdev] another experimental patch for bug 2606

Jeffrey Yasskin jyasskin at google.com
Fri Feb 26 18:18:08 PST 2010


Eek! I'm going to lose track of the threads if you start a new one
every time you update the patch. Consider using
http://codereview.appspot.com/?

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Garrison Venn <gvenn.cfe.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> Attached you will find an experimental patch which allows me to play with a
> derived JIT class. With this patch
> I've alleviated my concerns with forcing cross module behavior for all users
> of JIT. However this introduces some
> new semantics, and kind of circumvents the EngineBuilder API. More important
> though, I have not addressed
> any concern about using stub functions in eager compilation mode. I don't
> yet understand this concern since
> these stubs are compile time only, and it seems that the pending function
> system inherently uses stubs. Anyway
> I'm sure my understanding will get fixed soon enough. :-) The new code is
> NOT commented.
> This patch was NOT attached to 2606. Rather I feel this patch
> is experimental in nature. As before I tried to use "GMV Mod"
> as comments to mark my modifications as long as they did not
> involve introducing new files. If one is interested and wants
> to use this patch, one should use the test cases found in  2606 and modify
> them in the following ways.
> 1) Add: #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/CrossModuleJIT.h"
> 2) Add the call: LLVMSetupForCrossModuleJITUse();
> before using the EngineBuilder API
> For example take:
> ExecutionEngine* EE = EngineBuilder(M).create();
> and turn it into:
> LLVMSetupForCrossModuleJITUse();
> ExecutionEngine* EE = EngineBuilder(M).create();
> I wrote this somewhat fast so caveat emptor.
> Garrison
>
>
>




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