Function: Create an LLVM function/routine

In doktorschiwago/Rllvm2: Interface to llvm for dynamically compiling native code.

Description

This function and class creates a template Function object which we can use to build a native, compiled function.

This is not to be confused with the R reserved word function.

Usage

Function(name, retType, paramTypes = list(), module = Module(), varArgs = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

name	a string giving the name of the function
retType	the return type of the new function. This should be of class Type-class.
paramTypes	a list giving the types of the parameters of the function. These can be named or not.
module	the module in which the function is to be defined
varArgs	a logical value that indicates whether the routine has variadic arguments, i.e. passed to it via ... (not the ... in this function)
...	additional inputs for this call (not for calling the routine)

Value

An object of class Function

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

References

LLVM Documentation http://llvm.org/docs/

See Also

Block, IRBuilder

Examples

# This shows how we can use LLVM to call an existing routine.
m = Module()
ee = ExecutionEngine(m)
Rf_PrintValue = declareFunction(list(VoidType, SEXPType),  "Rf_PrintValue", m)
llvmAddSymbol("Rf_PrintValue")
.llvm(Rf_PrintValue, 1:10)

doktorschiwago/Rllvm2 documentation built on May 15, 2019, 9:42 a.m.