> You can already inline assembly into llvm so it's not super clean but it can be done.
Do you have any examples of this in use? I tried some simple things based on the examples in the LLVM manual and got "Failed to parse LLVM assembly" errors. I had thought this was unavailable with the old JIT, but I haven't yet dug in to find out for sure. On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote: > You can already inline assembly into llvm so it's not super clean but it > can be done. > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Isaiah Norton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> If it is exposed in some form by LLVM, you might be able to use llvmcall. >> See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5046 >> (and possibly also https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8740) >> >> Eventually I believe we will have a similar `asmcall` feature. >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:58 PM, eric l <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is there a plan for some sort of intrinsics in Julia? The most recent >>> iterations of the x86 ISA have things like pext that >>> extract specific bits in a dw, or qw and pack them together. >>> Currently to use an instruction like that I define a C function create a >>> shared lib and make a ccall. >>> This is rather sub optimal and the function while very simple is not >>> inlined obviously... >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -ETL >> >> >> >
