llvm dev - May 2013 - [LLVMdev] C Support Libraries

Hi, I'm writing a Scheme compiler in C++ with the LLVM library. The dynamic
type system is hard to tackle with direct LLVM from the C++ lib, so I'd
like to throw the work off into a C support library I could link the
compiled Scheme with. How can I generate code that depends on/calls
external symbols?
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Hi Tyler,
> How can I generate code that depends on/calls external symbols?
You should be able to just declare and use them in the LLVM IR you produce:
@global_var = global i32 0
declare i32 @get_another()

define i32 @foo() {
   %lhs = load i32* @global_var
   %rhs = call i32 @get_another()
   %result = add i32 %lhs, %rhs
   ret i32 %result
}

To see some C++ that could implement this, try running llc with the
"cpp" backend
$ llc -march=cpp something.ll

Cheers.

Tim.