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: JIT Needs To Support Arbitrary Function Call
Bug#: 419
: libraries
: Target-Independent JIT
Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
: All
: All
: 1.0
: P2
: normal
: 1.4

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: missing-feature
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Reporter: Reid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>
Assigned To: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>

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Description:   Opened: 2004-08-14 20:12
Currently, the JIT class supports calling of only two function prototypes:
  void func(int)
  int func(int, char**)

This is a known limitation of the current implementation but a more generic
solution could be developed so that any function could be invoked. There is a
FIXME in llvm::JIT::runFunction that reads:

  // FIXME: This code should handle a couple of common cases efficiently, but
  // it should also implement the general case by code-gening a new anonymous
  // nullary function to call.

There are several different ways to fix the problem, as hinted at by the
comment.  In the short term, adding something like this:

} else if (ArgValues.empty()) {
  void (*PF)() = (void(*)())getPointerToFunction(F);
  assert(PF && "Pointer to fn's code was null after getPointerToFunction");
  PF();

before the "else" case, should fix the issue.  That code is basically only smart
enough to run 'main', but could be enhanced by someone interested in it to
handle the general case.

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