[llvm-dev] New ORC v2 LLJIT - global variables

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

+Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com>, Admiral of the Orcish Fleet (Lang's the
primary developer/creator of the ORC JIT & might have some answers to your
question)

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:15 PM chris boese via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> We are trying to switch to the new orc v2 lljit engine at my work with
> hopes of parallel jitting. We are switching from the ExecutionEngine w/
> OrcMCJitReplacement. We are having a hard time with global variables. We
> have found a way to create/emit new globals during jitting by using the old
> ExecutionEngine::getOrEmitGlobalVariable. Is there an easier way to do this
> with the new jit engine? We were hoping to create a new ThreadSafeModule,
> add a GlobalVariable, and then add the module to the JIT engine through
> addLazyIRModule(), but this doesn't seem to work.
>
> 2nd question; Is the lookup function supposed to work with global
> variables by name? Looking through the CompileOnDemandLayer it seems to
> change the names of globals to "__orc_lcl.<name><id>". Does this affect the
> lookup methods? I noticed that all of the globals we are looking for are
> tagged with Internal linkage and end up getting emitted through
> extractSubModule().
>
> Any help is appreciated.
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