RFR: 8253757: Add LLVM-based backend for hsdis

Ludovic Henry luhenry at openjdk.java.net
Wed Oct 13 07:29:52 UTC 2021


On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:22 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This patch expands the newly added system for hsdis backends to include LLVM.
> 
> The actual code in hsdis-llvm.cpp is based heavily on the work by @luhenry, as published in the never integrated PR https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/392. (I have basically just ripped out the binutils-based part of it.)
> 
> Unfortunately I have not been able to make this work properly on Windows. With some additional flags I made it compile without complaints, but it caused hotspot to segfault in `LoadLibrary` (!) in `os::dll_load` when I tried to load the library. This is somewhat ironic, since the initial implementation was created by Ludovic for the very purpose of using it on Windows.
> 
> The lack of Windows support in this patch does not mean it is impossible to get it to work, just that I need to co-operate with someone who has more experience of compiling LLVM on Windows, and/or are more eager to get this combination to work.

Very happy to see it landing :) Thank you!

I don't have access to a windows machine, and even less a Windows-AArch64 machine. @lewurm would you be able to take a look?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5920


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