[LLVMdev] Convert C variable to LLVM IR Variable

[ChiaLun]

Hi everyone,

  I am doing some work with LLVM IR, I need to use LLVM IR to do operation
on C variables.

Code emission is done by LLVM JIT.

That variable is C thread local , for example

__thread int* gvar;


I think some methods to convert that variable to LLVM IR, 

(1) use external function

I know LLVM IR is able to call an external function, so I can write codes
that look like:

int* load()
{
  return gvar;
}

%x = call load(); // LLVM IR

so gvar is converted to %x


This method takes a lot of work and slow down the performance.

Method 2

use LLVM InlineAsm to load that gvar 
so It may look like
%x = call InlineAsm(... );

but I am not really sure how to write LLVM InlineAsm.



The reason why I take such indirect method is that as I know, JIT is not
able to

do with LLVM GlobalVariable with ThreadLocal type.


I would be grateful to you for any idea on handling this problem


Have A Nice Day

Chia Lun Liu




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