llvm dev - Feb 2011 - [LLVMdev] Bitcode not portable from linux to solaris?

Hi all.

  I made some early experiments --- namely a llvm program that
printf'd "hello world" -- that seemed to indicate that a bitcode
file
I generate on linux would work on my solaris box.  Well, they're
actually the same machine, an amd opteron sun box with a linux vm
running.   My generating program doesn't run on solaris, but I was
hoping to generate bitcode for it from linux.  lli crashes pretty
quick (although the same use on linux has been debugged pretty well,
and it's a pretty simple program!).  llvmc -clang complains quite a
bit about invalid directives (sorry, couldn't get on the machine
before my commute to work, so this is from memory only).

I read something quite some time ago that perhaps the bitcode wasn't
portable if the machines had different pointer sizes.  Solaris is
64bit (almost exclusively).  I tried generating from both 32 and 64
bit linux VMs, but perhaps I just didn't configure it properly to
generate 64-bit code?

I thought it was supposed to be portable?  Am I wrong?  llvm-dis works
on it fine.  Perhaps a llvm-dis -> llvm-as cycle would do the trick?

I can post the (small) bitcode file and the errors tonight, if that helps.

Any help is really appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

On 2011-01-31 17:56, Lally Singh wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
>   I made some early experiments --- namely a llvm program that
> printf'd "hello world" -- that seemed to indicate that a
bitcode file
> I generate on linux would work on my solaris box.  Well, they're
> actually the same machine, an amd opteron sun box with a linux vm
> running.   My generating program doesn't run on solaris, but I was
> hoping to generate bitcode for it from linux.  lli crashes pretty
> quick (although the same use on linux has been debugged pretty well,
> and it's a pretty simple program!).  llvmc -clang complains quite a
> bit about invalid directives (sorry, couldn't get on the machine
> before my commute to work, so this is from memory only).
> 
> I read something quite some time ago that perhaps the bitcode wasn't
> portable if the machines had different pointer sizes.  Solaris is
> 64bit (almost exclusively).  I tried generating from both 32 and 64
> bit linux VMs, but perhaps I just didn't configure it properly to
> generate 64-bit code?
> 
> I thought it was supposed to be portable?  Am I wrong?  llvm-dis works
> on it fine.  Perhaps a llvm-dis -> llvm-as cycle would do the trick?
> 
> I can post the (small) bitcode file and the errors tonight, if that helps.
> 
> Any help is really appreciated.  Thanks in advance!
It is probably an ABI issue, your bitcode specifies the Linux ABI, and
trying to use that on Solaris won't work.
Try deleting the triple from the module, or editing it to be the proper
one for Solaris.
Also you'll probably need to use the Solaris headers when
cross-compiling your bitcode, but that shouldn't matter for just calling
printf.

Best regards,
--Edwin
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On Jan 31, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Lally Singh wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
>  I made some early experiments --- namely a llvm program that
> printf'd "hello world" -- that seemed to indicate that a
bitcode file
> I generate on linux would work on my solaris box.
http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/OCamlLangImpl8.html#llvmirproperties

-Chris

To answer my own question.  The problem is that Solaris ships with
very old tools, and llvmc was generating assembler that worked with a
fresh (gcc-4.5) compile & install.  I had them handy, just further
down the path.  Hopefully anyone with the same problem can find this
in the archive.



Thanks everyone.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Lally Singh <lally.singh at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all.
>
>  I made some early experiments --- namely a llvm program that
> printf'd "hello world" -- that seemed to indicate that a
bitcode file
> I generate on linux would work on my solaris box.  Well, they're
> actually the same machine, an amd opteron sun box with a linux vm
> running.   My generating program doesn't run on solaris, but I was
> hoping to generate bitcode for it from linux.  lli crashes pretty
> quick (although the same use on linux has been debugged pretty well,
> and it's a pretty simple program!).  llvmc -clang complains quite a
> bit about invalid directives (sorry, couldn't get on the machine
> before my commute to work, so this is from memory only).
>
> I read something quite some time ago that perhaps the bitcode wasn't
> portable if the machines had different pointer sizes.  Solaris is
> 64bit (almost exclusively).  I tried generating from both 32 and 64
> bit linux VMs, but perhaps I just didn't configure it properly to
> generate 64-bit code?
>
> I thought it was supposed to be portable?  Am I wrong?  llvm-dis works
> on it fine.  Perhaps a llvm-dis -> llvm-as cycle would do the trick?
>
> I can post the (small) bitcode file and the errors tonight, if that helps.
>
> Any help is really appreciated.  Thanks in advance!
>

On 02/02/2011 19:53, Lally Singh wrote:
> To answer my own question.  The problem is that Solaris ships with
> very old tools, and llvmc was generating assembler that worked with a
> fresh (gcc-4.5) compile&  install.  I had them handy, just further
> down the path.  Hopefully anyone with the same problem can find this
> in the archive.
>    
I think llvm isn't ported to Solaris i386/x86_64 yet. Particularly, 
clang there prints the same data layout string as on linux assuming ABI 
is the same when it isn't. So using your approach certain calls to the 
externally compiled libraries will cause failures. Some simpler examples 
may work fine.

Yuri