On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:22 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@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. > 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 #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. What is it for, then? hsdis builds on AArch64-MacOS-LLVM with cd src/utils/hsdis mkdir build cd build git clone https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb ln -s binutils-gdb binutils cd .. make ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5920
