[LLVMdev] Examples of creating Obj-C objects?

[David Chisnall]

Which Objective-C runtime are you looking at?  Clang currently supports the two Apple ABIs, the GCC and the GNUstep runtime.  Take a look in CGObjCGNU.cpp and CGObjCMac.cpp.  

If you're only interested in JIT compiling, then I would suggest that you look at the runtime's public API, and just use objc_msgSend() and friends to create objects.  If you want to create classes, then use objc_createClassPair() and associated functions - you can do this outside of LLVM to create the class skeletons and then JIT-compile the methods with LLVM and attach them to the class, which will mean that your code is portable to all Objective-C implementations.

David

On 8 Jan 2013, at 03:18, Rick Mann wrote:

> Hi. Does anyone have examples of LLVM assembler to create Objective-C objects and send messages? I'm talking about having an Engine hosted within my Objective-C app, and having LLVM bitcode call back into the app.
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> Thanks!
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> Rick
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