Re: LLVM 16 (opaque pointers)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@aiven.io>
Date: 2023-10-13T14:56:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. jit: Adjust back-patch of f90b4a84 to 12 and 13.

  2. Log LLVM library version in configure output.

  3. jit: Changes for LLVM 17.

  4. jit: Supply LLVMGlobalGetValueType() for LLVM < 8.

  5. jit: Support opaque pointers in LLVM 16.

  6. jit: Reference function pointer types via llvmjit_types.c.

On 2023-10-13 16:44:13 +0200, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> Here is what I had in mind (only this part in the second patch was changed).

Makes sense to me. I think we'll likely eventually want to use a custom
pipeline anyway, and I think we should consider using an optimization level
inbetween "not at all" "as hard as possible"...

Greetings,

Andres Freund