Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-02-09T15:10:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Thomas Munro
<thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> On 2018-02-01 09:32:17 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Konstantin Knizhnik
>>> <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> How can I get this branch to compile on ubuntu 16.04? I have llvm-5.0
>>> and gcc-5.4 installed. Do I need to compile with clang or gcc? Any
>>> CXXFLAGS required?
>>
>> Just to understand: You're running in the issue with the header being
>> included from within the extern "C" {}?  Hm, I've pushed a quick fix for
>> that.
>
> That change wasn't quite enough: to get this building against libc++
> (Clang's native stdlb) I also needed this change to llvmjit.h so that
> <llvm-c/Types.h> wouldn't be included with the wrong linkage (perhaps
> you can find a less ugly way):
>
> +#ifdef __cplusplus
> +}
> +#endif
>  #include <llvm-c/Types.h>
> +#ifdef __cplusplus
> +extern "C"
> +{
> +#endif

This did the trick -- thanks.  Sitting through 20 minute computer
crashing link times really brings back C++ nightmares -- if anyone
else needs to compile llvm/clang as I did (I'm stuck on 3.2 with my
aging mint box), I strongly encourage you to use the gold linker.

Question:  when watching the compilation log, I see quite a few files
being compiled with both O2 and O1, for example:

clang -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
-Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing
-fwrapv -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -O2 -O1
-Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-unknown-warning-option
-Wno-ignored-optimization-argument -I../../../../src/include
-D_GNU_SOURCE -I/home/mmoncure/llvm/include -DLLVM_BUILD_GLOBAL_ISEL
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEBUG -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
-D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS  -flto=thin -emit-llvm -c -o nbtsort.bc
nbtsort.c

Is this intentional?  (didn't check standard compilation, it just jumped out).

merlin


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".