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Robert Mykland

2006-Nov-16 16:53 UTC

[LLVMdev] Question about functions/bytecodes: external linkage

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So I'm going through this super-easy example of a bytecode file along
the lines of "Hello World!"  Here is the llvm for it:<br>
<br>
; ModuleID = 'hello.bc'<br>
target endian = little<br>
target pointersize = 32<br>
target triple = "i686-pc-linux-gnu"<br>
%str = internal constant [18 x sbyte] c"Hello RKM world!\0A\00"
; <[18 x sbyte]*> [#uses=1]<br>
<br>
implementation   ; Functions:<br>
<br>
int %main() {<br>
entry:<br>
        %tmp = call int (sbyte*, ...)* %printf( sbyte* getelementptr
([18 x sbyte]* %str, int 0, uint 0) )              ; <int>
[#uses=0]<br>
        ret int 0<br>
}<br>
<br>
declare int %printf(sbyte*, ...)<br>
<br>
And here is the bytecode for it:<br>
<br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"
size="-1">00000000  6c 6c
76 63 30 01 00 00  00 a3 00 00 00 50 86 02  |llvc0........P..|<br>
00000010  00 00 07 10 0e 0f 03 12  10 10 0d 07 00 10 13 10 
|................|<br>
00000020  03 0d 07 02 12 00 c5 03  00 00 af 03 01 00 e1 03 
|................|<br>
00000030  b1 04 00 00 11 69 36 38  36 2d 70 63 2d 6c 69 6e 
|.....i686-pc-lin|<br>
00000040  75 78 2d 67 6e 75 00 00  e3 03 00 00 01 00 0e 48 
|ux-gnu.........H|<br>
00000050  65 6c 6c 6f 20 52 4b 4d  20 77 6f 72 6c 64 21 0a  |ello RKM
world!.|<br>
00000060  00 01 12 04 1a 01 0d 00  07 00 06 62 04 00 00 00 
|...........b....|<br>
00000070  27 01 00 00 74 11 02 01  01 05 07 00 00 24 02 00 
|'...t........$..|<br>
00000080  00 00 01 0c 00 05 65 6e  74 72 79 01 07 01 03 74 
|......entry....t|<br>
00000090  6d 70 44 03 00 00 00 01  11 01 06 70 72 69 6e 74 
|mpD........print|<br>
000000a0  66 01 0f 01 04 6d 61 69  6e 01 0d 01 03 73 74 72 
|f....main....str|<br>
000000b0</font><br>
<br>
My question is about the single function in the bytecode file, which to
my decoding starts at offset 0x06b in the bytecode file.  Based on my
interpretation of the bytecode spec, looks to me that the byte at 0x06f
should specify the linkage for the function, which decodes to
external.  Yet the next module is an instruction list, and the function
is specified right there in the file.  So I figure that either I don't
understand what external linkage means or I'm decoding the bytecode
file wrong.  Help!<br>
<br>
Thanks in Advance,<br>
<br>
-- Robert.<br>
<br>
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