[LLVMdev] RTTI handling

[Marshall Clow]

On Sep 30, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Garrison Venn wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2011, at 12:15, Somorjai, Akos wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I was wondering how llvm and clang handles the RTTI shared libraries issue mentioned here: http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#dso
>> 
>> Is it using name or address comparison?
>> 
>> We have an architecture with several frameworks and plug-ins; some of the latter are being loaded and unloaded runtime.
>> In the past that issue caused crashes in our app, so at the moment we are overriding __dynamic_cast to detect this problem, but that's kind of messy. I'm hoping for a better solution with llvm…
>> 
>> (Mac OS X 10.6/10.7, clang 3.0)
> 
> LLVM does not use RTTI--it has its own mechanisms; see llvm/include/llvm/Support/Casting.h, and by default it is turning off for an LLVM build.

I don't think that's what the OP meant.

I think he's talking about using RTTI in his code - how LLVM generated code (and/or LLVM runtime libraries) handle RTTI.
I expect the answer is "The same as gcc, since code compiled with LLVM needs to interoperate with code compiled with gcc.

[ I too would like a better way of handling RTTI and dynamic libraries ]


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