[LLVMdev] Patch to allow llvm.gcroot to work with non-pointer allocas.

[Talin]

...crickets...

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Talin <viridia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm moving this thread to llvm-dev in the hopes of reaching a wider
> audience.
>
> This patch relaxes the restriction on llvm.gcroot so that it can work with
> non-pointer allocas. The only changes are to Verifier.cpp - it appears from
> my testing that llvm.gcroot always worked fine with non-pointer allocas,
> except that the verifier wouldn't allow it. I've used this patch to build an
> efficient stack crawler (an alternative to shadow-stack that uses only
> static constant data structures.)
>
> Here's a deal: If you accept this patch, I'll write up an extensive
> tutorial on how to write a stack crawler like mine. (Actually, it's already
> written, however without this patch the tutorial doesn't make any sense.)
>
> --
> -- Talin
>



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-- Talin
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