[LLVMdev] More questions about non_lazy_ptr

[Talin]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Talin <viridia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a problem where my LLVM-generated code works on Linux but not on OS
> X, and the problem involves non_lazy_ptr.
>
> I have an external symbol named "@gc_safepoint_map", which is generated by
> the linker's GCStrategy plugin. Since it is not generated until link time, I
> declared it as an external symbol so that the modules that use it can
> compile without error.
>
> Here's what the generated IR looks like:
>
>   @gc_safepoint_map = external global [0 x i32]
>
> The runtime startup code gets the safepoint map and calls GC_init with the
> safepoint map. Here's what the code looks like in IR:
>
>   %init = invoke {} @GC_init(i32* getelementptr inbounds ([0 x i32]*
> @gc_safepoint_map, i32 0, i32 0))
>           to label %nounwind unwind label %catch
>
> When lowered to assembly, the code looks like this on OS X:
>
>    Ltmp426:
>            movl    L_gc_safepoint_map$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
>            movl    %eax, (%esp)
>            calll   _GC_init
>
> (and later on in the same file):
>
>    L_gc_safepoint_map$non_lazy_ptr:
>            .indirect_symbol        _gc_safepoint_map
>            .long   0
>
> This looks correct to me - it's dereferencing the non_lazy_ptr version of
> the global.
>
> The GC_init function, which is written in C, simply looks like this:
>
>   void GC_init(size_t * safepointMap) {
>     // ... details omitted...
>   }
>
> On Linux, everything works as expected, however in OS X, the 'safepointMap'
> pointer is completely wrong - I'm not sure where it's getting the value from
> but it isn't sensible.
>
> Unfortunately, gdb won't let me print out the value of of
> L_gc_safepoint_map$non_lazy_ptr (No symbol "L_gc_safepoint_map$non_lazy_ptr"
> in current context) so it's hard to tell what's actually going on.
>

Thanks to Ben Karel who supplied the answer to me off-list. The solution was
to add the following line to my GCStrategy:

  outStream.EmitSymbolAttribute(gcSafepointSymbol, MCSA_Global);

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-- Talin
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