OrcJIT in LLVM C bindings

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Hello,

I was wondering if there is someone already working on putting the new OrcJIT APIs in the LLVM-C bindings?

Also, is there a general consensus to also add C bindings when new major features are added?

Hayden

2

Hello,

I was wondering if there is someone already working on putting the new
OrcJIT APIs in the LLVM-C bindings?

Also, is there a general consensus to also add C bindings when new major
features are added?

Generally not, so far as I know. Things are added to the C bindings on an
as-needed basis, generally.

3

Thanks, David.

I’d be happy to add the bindings … is there a general way we add them? Or do you just scrub the API and make sensible judgements to the API?

4

Thanks, David.

I'd be happy to add the bindings .. is there a general way we add them? Or
do you just scrub the API and make sensible judgements to the API?

Pretty much that, I suppose - that's my rough understanding anyway.

5

Thanks, David.

I'd be happy to add the bindings .. is there a general way we add them?
Or do you just scrub the API and make sensible judgements to the API?

Pretty much that, I suppose - that's my rough understanding anyway.

That said, ORC is a relatively new API that may be in flux and the C API
does come with a rather strong (I forget if we've clarified this & made
different guarantees) guarantee of backwards compatibility, so it might not
be appropriate to expose such a detailed API especially for a
new/experimental piece of code - not sure.

6

HI Hayden,

There's no plan to expose any of the Orc APIs directly just yet - they're still very experimental.

We could add a call to opt-in to using OrcMCJITReplacement rather than MCJIT though.

Cheers,
Lang.