Robert Widmann 03b19f3f7e Sequester the REPL's linking machinery ...

All of this is in service of working around a pile of deficiencies in LLVM's Module Linker, and LLVMContext abstractions. And because we're just gonna scrap this code soon anyways, it's probably not worth the effort to push on these bugs to block the broader cleanup here.

The LLVM Linker currently does not support linking modules allocated in different contexts. This appears to be motivated in part by LLVM's lack of a facility to clone a module from one context to another. This, in turn, appears to be motivated in part by LLVMContext's lack of a robust notion of identity - which makes it harder than it needs to be to detect the mismatch.

However, it is not impossible to clone a module across contexts. We need to get creative and round-trip the module through some serialization layer. Out of convenience, that layer is currently textual IR, though bitcode would work equally well.

Given that it is no longer under the caller's control which LLVMContext we generate code in, put all the above together to arrive at an egregious hack that clones the module into the LLVMContext the REPL expects.

2020-04-16 11:57:44 -07:00

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