Julia/LLVM interop

JuliaContext()
JuliaContext(f::Function)

Returns the (session-bound) LLVM context used by the Julia compiler. This only works on Julia 1.5 or below; starting with Julia 1.6 there is no global context. On those versions, you need to use the do-block version of this function to create a temporary context, and pipe it through instead of assuming and accessing a single global contex. The do-block version also works on 1.5 and below, where it just returns the global context.

convert(LLVMType, typ::Type, ctx::Context; allow_boxed=true)

Convert a Julia type typ to its LLVM representation. Fails if the type would be boxed.

create_function(rettyp::LLVMType, argtyp::Vector{LLVMType}, [name::String])

Create an LLVM function, given its return type rettyp and a vector of argument types argtyp. The function is marked for inlining, to be embedded in the caller's body. Returns both the newly created function, and its type.

call_function(f::LLVM.Function, rettyp::Type, argtyp::Type, args::Expr)

Generate a call to an LLVM function f, given its return type rettyp and a tuple-type for the arguments. The arguments should be passed as an expression yielding a tuple of the argument values (eg. :((1,2))), which will be splatted into the call to the function.

@asmcall asm::String [constraints::String] [side_effects::Bool=false]
         rettyp=Nothing argtyp=Tuple{} args...

Call some inline assembly asm, optionally constrained by constraints and denoting other side effects in side_effects, specifying the return type in rettyp and types of arguments as a tuple-type in argtyp.