On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:39:49 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. > > 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 This PR has just gotten too messy. :-( I'll close this one for now, focus on getting the (much simpler) Capstone backend integrated, and then I can come back and revisit this functionality, but in a fresh new PR. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5920
