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Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>

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From: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-01-31T08:03:44Z
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On 31.01.2018 05:48, Thomas Munro wrote:
>
>>> This seems to be a valid complaint.  I don't think you should be
>>> (indirectly) wrapping Types.h in extern "C".  At a guess, your
>>> llvmjit.h should be doing its own #ifdef __cplusplus'd linkage
>>> specifiers, so you can use it from C or C++, but making sure that you
>>> don't #include LLVM's headers from a bizarro context where __cplusplus
>>> is defined but the linkage is unexpectedly already "C"?
>> Hm, this seems like a bit of pointless nitpickery by the compiler to me,
>> but I guess...
> Well that got me curious about how GCC could possibly be accepting
> that (it certainly doesn't like extern "C" template ... any more than
> the next compiler).  I dug a bit and realised that it's the stdlib
> that's different:  libstdc++ has its own extern "C++" in <cmath>,
> while  libc++ doesn't.
>
The same problem takes place with old versions of GCC: I have to upgrade 
GCC to 7.2 to make it possible to compile this code.
The problem in not in compiler itself, but in libc++ headers.

-- 
Konstantin Knizhnik
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

Commits

  1. Improve JIT docs.

  2. Add documentation for the JIT feature.

  3. Add EXPLAIN support for JIT.

  4. Add inlining support to LLVM JIT provider.

  5. JIT tuple deforming in LLVM JIT provider.

  6. Add FIELDNO_* macro designating offset into structs required for JIT.

  7. Add expression compilation support to LLVM JIT provider.

  8. Expand list of synchronized types and functions in LLVM JIT provider.

  9. Add helpers for emitting LLVM IR.

  10. Basic planner and executor integration for JIT.

  11. Debugging and profiling support for LLVM JIT provider.

  12. Support for optimizing and emitting code in LLVM JIT provider.

  13. Add file containing extensions of the LLVM C API.

  14. Basic JIT provider and error handling infrastructure.

  15. Add configure infrastructure (--with-llvm) to enable LLVM support.

  16. Add C++ support to configure.

  17. Add PGAC_PROG_VARCC_VARFLAGS_OPT autoconf macro.

  18. Fix VM buffer pin management in heap_lock_updated_tuple_rec().

  19. Allow tupleslots to have a fixed tupledesc, use in executor nodes.

  20. Expression evaluation based aggregate transition invocation.

  21. Perform slot validity checks in a separate pass over expression.

  22. Rely on executor utils to build targetlist for DML RETURNING.

  23. Refer to OS X as "macOS", except for the port name which is still "darwin".