[llvm-dev] Generate statepoints for given code

[David Chisnall via llvm-dev]

Hi,

It’s not clear what you’re actually trying to do.  Are you trying to write a garbage collector for C?  That’s unlikely to benefit from the statepoint work because it’s designed for accurate GCs, whereas C intrinsically requires conservative GC (or some compiler or hardware changes to track pointer provenance through integer casts).

David

> On 7 May 2021, at 17:23, Kavindu Gimhan Zoysa via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am currently working on evaluating the support of the LLVM GC framework in order to design a garbage collector. 
> 
> I have followed the below docs.
> https://releases.llvm.org/11.0.0/docs/GarbageCollection.html
> https://releases.llvm.org/11.0.0/docs/Statepoints.html
> https://releases.llvm.org/11.0.0/docs/StackMaps.html
> 
> I am trying to generate the llvm IR with safepoints for the given C code. This repository contains relevant source files. 
> https://github.com/KavinduZoysa/test-GCs/tree/master/statepoints
> 
> I generated statepoints for main.ll file I used the command opt-11 --rewrite-statepoints-for-gc main.ll -S -o main-statepoints.ll
> 
> I want to know the way I followed to generate statepoints is correct? If not the what is the best practice of generating statepoints(for give LLVM IR) for a garbage collector?
> 
> Thank you,
> Kavindu
> 
> Kavindu Gimhan Zoysa,
> BSc(Hons) | ENTC | UoM,
> SSE | WSO2
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