> 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
>>
>>
>>
>

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