Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

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.

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