[pypy-dev] llvm and externs

[Chris Lattner]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Richard Emslie wrote:
> Ooops - sorry about the horrible subject in last mail (it's late)

Which externs do you need?  Are these for system prototypes or pypy 
functions?

-Chris

>> cc 'ing pypy-dev, since I cant get to #pypy these days.
>> 
>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Christian Tismer wrote:
>> 
>>> Richard Emslie wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Did see ll_osdefs.h breaks llvm in horrible ways...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Aaahrrrgggg!!!
>>> 
>>> Why that at all?
>>> Just a brave part of the inclues, taken from CPython  ( *gulp* )
>>> how can this hurt so much ?
>> 
>> :-)  Yes arrrggghhhh!!  But no fault of yours - just that we use a 
>> (llvm) C compiler for externs.  If a local compiler is not available, 
>> we go to a remote machine to generate llvm code.  So local includes are 
>> not possible - hence in genllvm we manually include C files from 
>> #include statements. :-(
>> 
>> Now listdir() uses opaque (dont know if you introduced this or someone 
>> else) - and llvm doesnt have proper support for opaque types... yet. 
>> So we cannot compile pypy right now.
>> 
>>> 
>>>> will try to fix, but it is becoming more of a hassle trying to 
>>>> maintain llvm backend when it is not really giving much back.
>>> 
>> 
>> Sorry for the negativeness.  It would be interesting however to have 
>> the core developers opinion(s) about backends in general and whether it 
>> is believed maintaining it (the llvm one) is a worthwhile goal.
>> 
>>> Sorry about that.I tried to make my live easier when I had to port
>>> this listdir() mess, which does not fit winnows at all :-)
>>> 
>> 
>> No need to apologize - the include fix was minor and opaque types are 
>> part of rpython and cannot be avoided. :-)
>> 
>> Cheers & good nite,
>> Richard
>> 
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-Chris

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