On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:22 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. The value add of this LLVM-based hsdis is two-fold: - It supports platforms that aren't supported by binutils (Windows-AArch64 for example) - The license being more permissive would allow to build it as part of the OpenJDK build more easily (and even maybe ship it?) LLVM has a strong track record of supporting new platforms (Windows-AArch64 and macOS-AArch64 for example, mostly because of investment from Microsoft and Apple respectively), and `hsdis` is a necessary tool for porting the OpenJDK to any new platform. Since the maintenance is fairly low (small codebase, small and knowledgable user base), I would be biased towards including it with appropriate warnings. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5920
