RFR: 8253757: Add LLVM-based backend for hsdis [v8]

Magnus Ihse Bursie ihse at openjdk.java.net
Wed Feb 16 14:39:49 UTC 2022


> 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.

Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:

 - Add section on using LLVM
 - Allow override of LLVM location using --with-llvm

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5920/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5920/files/467e1bb1..5ea9bc0d

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=5920&range=07
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=5920&range=06-07

  Stats: 37 lines in 2 files changed: 32 ins; 0 del; 5 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5920.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/5920/head:pull/5920

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


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