[Dotgnu-libjit] RE: Declaring temporary array

[Shasank Chavan]

Hi.  I just sent an email (see below) regarding arrays.  I just noticed that you have an alloca instruction, which is what I was looking for.  Presumably jit_insn_alloca() returns a jit void pointer type.  If I have this right, and this is how you would implement arrays on the stack, then there's no need to respond to my question.  Thanks.
 
- Shasank
 

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From: address@hidden
To: address@hidden
Subject: Declaring temporary array
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:16:39 -0800

Hi.  I'm really new to libjit, so this question is likely to be one you've seen before (although I could not find it in your archives).  I'd like to create a temporary array from the stack (not heap) using libjit.  I noticed that the only types of values that can be created are standard types (ints, bytes, etc) and structs/unions.  Would I need to create an array using structs, where all the fields required in the array are the same type?  That doesn't seem right, so I suspect I have it wrong.  I would appreciate your help on declaring this array off the stack - my alternative would be to pass in a "temp array' into the function I'm building so references can be made into it.
 
Also, a few other questions:
 
1. It seems like the max optimization level supported in libjit is 0.  Perhaps I don't have the latest version?
2. Any work going on in supportin ia64 code generation?
 
Thanks.
 
- Shasank

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