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On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Gary Benson wrote: > When you genetate code on PowerPC you need to explicitly invalidate > the instruction cache to force the processor to reread it. In LLVM > there is code to do this for function stubs on Macintosh, but not > for other platforms and not for JITted code generally. Applied, thanks!

...TEmitter.cpp (working copy) @@ -145,20 +145,6 @@ JITResolver *JITResolver::TheJITResolver = 0; -#if (defined(__POWERPC__) || defined (__ppc__) || defined(_POWER)) && \ - defined(__APPLE__) -extern "C" void sys_icache_invalidate(const void *Addr, size_t len); -#endif - -/// synchronizeICache - On some targets, the JIT emitted code must be -/// explicitly refetched to ensure correct execution. -static void synchronizeICache(const void *Addr, size_t len) { -#if (defined(__POWERPC__) || defined (__ppc__) || defined(_POWER)) && \ - defined(__APPLE__) - sys_icache_invalidate(Ad...

Hi all, When you genetate code on PowerPC you need to explicitly invalidate the instruction cache to force the processor to reread it. In LLVM there is code to do this for function stubs on Macintosh, but not for other platforms and not for JITted code generally. The attached patch adds support for GNU platforms, but I can't figure out a nice way to call it for all generated code. Can