[LLVMdev] Weird problems on calling an external function from MCJIT on Windows(mingw)

[waxiadao@gmail.com]

Hello
I quite thank you for your advice,but I have to tell that it made no
difference too calling
"LLVMAddGlobalMapping(ee,LLVMGetNamedFunction(m,"_a_outside_func"),(void*)(&a_outside_func));".


2014-04-04 16:10 GMT+08:00 Anton Korobeynikov <anton at korobeynikov.info>:

> Hello
>
> While there is a symbol in the object file, there is nothing like this
> in the final executable (well, you can try to export functions from
> PE/COFF executable, but this is pretty non-standard technique). This
> is the biggest difference wrt linux, where all the visible symbols are
> exported by default from the binary.
>
> Most probably, the best way here is to create an explicit mapping
> between a GlobalValue which represents your external function and the
> address of your function. ExecutionEngine::addGlobalMapping() is your
> friend here.
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:48 AM, waxiadao at gmail.com <waxiadao at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a IR file generated by Clang:
> >
> > ; ModuleID = 'test_load_lib.c'
> > target datalayout =
> >
> "e-p:32:32:32-i1:8:8-i8:8:8-i16:16:16-i32:32:32-i64:64:64-f32:32:32-f64:64:64-f80:128:128-v64:64:64-v128:128:128-a0:0:64-f80:32:32-n8:16:32-S32"
> > target triple = "i686-pc-mingw32"
> >
> > declare i32 @a_outside_func(i32)
> >
> > define i32 @test_func() {
> > entry:
> >   %call = call i32 @a_outside_func(i32 15)
> >   ret i32 %call
> > }
> >
> > where a_outside_func is a function defined on my code:
> >
> > extern "C" int a_outside_func(int a)
> > {
> >   return a + 50;
> > }
> >
> > and following code is to get MCJIT work:
> >
> > #define prt(x) if(x) { cout << x << endl; }
> > LLVMInitializeAllTargets();
> >   LLVMInitializeAllTargetMCs();
> >   LLVMInitializeAllTargetInfos();
> >   LLVMInitializeAllAsmParsers();
> >   LLVMInitializeAllAsmPrinters();
> >   LLVMInitializeAllDisassemblers(); // just initialize them all....
> >   prt(a_outside_func(50));               // afraid of linker optmize it
> out
> >
> >   char *err = 0;
> >   LLVMMemoryBufferRef ll_f = 0;
> >   LLVMModuleRef m = 0;
> >
> LLVMCreateMemoryBufferWithContentsOfFile("test_load_lib.ll",&ll_f,&err);
> > //read .ll
> >   prt(err);
> >   LLVMParseIRInContext(LLVMGetGlobalContext(),ll_f,&m,&err); // ll_f
> doesnt
> > need freeing
> >   prt(err);
> >   LLVMDumpModule(m);
> >
> >   LLVMLinkInMCJIT();
> >   LLVMExecutionEngineRef ee = 0;
> >   LLVMCreateMCJITCompilerForModule(&ee,m,0,0,&err);
> >   prt(err);
> >   using tf_t = int ();
> >   tf_t *f =
> > (tf_t*)LLVMGetPointerToGlobal(ee,LLVMGetNamedFunction(m,"test_func"));
> >
> > At first i got "LLVM ERROR: Incompatible object format! "
> > But by reading some articles I append LLVMSetTarget(m,"i686-pc-mingw32");
> > and it's fixed.
> > Then I got "LLVM ERROR: Program used external function 'a_outside_func'
> > which could not be resolved!".
> > I assumed my program didn't export the symbol properly.Thus,I use nm to
> > check my program's export and I found "a_outside_func" was renamed to
> > "_a_outside_func"
> > .
> > For it I rename the function name in the IR to "_a_outside_func".But it
> > seemed to make no difference: "LLVM ERROR: Program used external function
> > '_a_outside_func' which could not be resolved!".
> > .............
> > After a day's wasting I unconsciously packed my external function
> > "a_outside_func" into a shared object,called
> > llvm::sys::DynamicLibrary::LoadLibraryPermanently("ext_func.so"); at the
> > beginning of the program and named the function "_a_outside_func" in the
> IR.
> > OMG IT WORKS THEN?!
> > So I'd like to ask why llvm cant resolve my external function from the
> > program itself(in fact i dont get such problems on linux)?
> >
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>
>
> --
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University
>
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