[llvm-dev] [llvm] To link or not to link

[Julius Michaelis via llvm-dev]

Hi,

I have migrated an LLVM front-end from LLVM 3.5 to 3.8 and now to 3.9 and ORC, and there is a concept which I could not transfer. Consider:

extern "C" { void somefunc() {} }
…
auto llvmfunc = llvm::Function::Create(type, llvmFunction::PrivateLinkage, "bla", module));
executionengine.addGlobalMapping(llvmfunc, &somefunc);
// now I have llvmfunc to work with and don't need to consider anything else

The GlobalMappingLayer class seems to provide the functionality I want. I oriented myself on the example from https://github.com/AndySomogyi/cayman/blob/aaa809c/src/llvm_orc_initial.cpp#L1172 (just oriented, because at least on 3.9, I can not stack the GlobalMappingLayer on the ObjectLinkingLayer. I have to put it onto the IRCompileLayer. One question I'd have: How does that order matter?)

The problem I have with that conceptually is: The name seems to matter. The abstraction I'd like is that I get an llvm::Function*, and that is mapped to &somefunc, the name "bla" I gave it should be irrelevant. (And that's what I'd like that to be like for all functions and function calls and whatnot: The name I give them is irrelevant, only the llvm::Function*/llvm::Value* matters.) Am I using the wrong API and there is a way to do this without the names, without any symbol resolution at all? (I don't want to use symbols from the current executable or anywhere else, either.)

The problem I have with that implementationally: It just doesn't work. I get a LLVM ERROR: Undefined temporary symbol from the ELFObjectWriter (and the error is actually about that symbol I'm trying to map), none of the llvm assertions fail. I compiled a minimal example of what I'm doing and attached it. The curious part is that the lambda resolver does not even get invoked… Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you
Julius


PS: Related thread: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-August/thread.html#89230

PPS:
The whole thing I'm building is supposed to be a script engine for a game. As the scripts aren't supposed to have any access outside the game, I'd like as little linking magic as possible.
It's still in early stages. https://git.openclonk.org/jcaesar/experimental.git/blob/7be141ce667f4689428943592bae0a7568134213:/src/script/C4AulCompiler.cpp
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project(mex)

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.0.2)
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-std=c++14")
set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}")

# Done as per http://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html#embedding-llvm-in-your-project (?)
find_package(LLVM 3.9 REQUIRED)
message(STATUS "Found LLVM ${LLVM_PACKAGE_VERSION}")
message(STATUS "Using LLVMConfig.cmake in: ${LLVM_DIR}")
include_directories(${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS})
add_definitions(${LLVM_DEFINITIONS})
llvm_map_components_to_libnames(LLVM_LIBRARIES_OC Analysis Core ExecutionEngine InstCombine Object RuntimeDyld ScalarOpts Support native)
include_directories(SYSTEM ${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS})
link_directories(${LLVM_LIBRARY_DIRS})

add_executable(mex mex.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mex ${LLVM_LIBRARIES_OC} ${LLVM_LDFLAGS})