[LLVMdev] JIT compiled intrinsics calls is call to null pointer

[Taco H. in den Bosch]

Hi Andrew,
this sounded a plausible explanation, because the X86 processor does not 
have an instruction to calculate the power function.
So I tried the llvm.sin.f32 intrinsic, as the X86 processor family does 
have an instruction for that, but I still get the same problem. While you 
may still be right, there is at least something else going on as well.

Thanks for your input, though.
Taco.

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From: "Andrew MacPherson" <andrew.macp at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:36 AM
To: taco at heddesit.nl
Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] JIT compiled intrinsics calls is call to null 
pointer

Hi Taco,

We had a similar issue where a math intrinsic was being converted to a call 
to null and it turned out to be because the system didn't support the CPU 
instructions for the operation so the intrinsic used a call to the library 
function (pow in your case). However because we weren't expecting this math 
function to be looked up by MCJIT in our 
JITMemoryManager::getPointerToNamedFunction() we weren't making it 
available and it was returning null.

Not sure if this is relevant to your case but maybe it'll help point you in 
the right direction.

Cheers,
Andrew

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Taco H. in den Bosch <taco at heddesit.nl> 
wrote:

Hi everyone,   
  I am trying to call an LLVM intrinsic (llvm.pow.f32), inserted with the 
following call:  
std::vector<llvm::Type *> 
arg_types;arg_types.push_back(llvm::Type::getFloatTy(context));  auto 
function=llvm::Intrinsic::getDeclaration(module, llvm::Intrinsic::pow, 
arg_types);auto result=ir_builder->CreateCall(function, args);   
 When I try to execute the code generated by the JIT compiler, I see that 
the intrinsic is not compiled into a math coprocessor instruction, but in a 
call to a null address:   
 002300B8  sub         esp,8  002300BB  movss       xmm0,dword ptr 
ds:[2300B0h]    002300C3  movss       dword ptr [esp+4],xmm0  002300C9  
movss       xmm0,dword ptr ds:[2300B4h]  002300D1  movss       dword ptr 
[esp],xmm0  002300D6  call        00000000    002300DB  add         esp,8  
002300DE  ret  
 Is there anything special that I need to do in order to be able to call 
intrinsics, either in general or when JITting? I am either doing something 
wrong, or forgetting to do something, but I don't know what.   
 I am working with a Visual Studio compiled version on Windows (x86). 
 All hints will be appreciated, with kind regards,  
Taco H. in den Bosch.

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