Any plans of llvmlite migration?

[sowani]

One of bitey dependencies - llvm-py (https://github.com/llvmpy/llvmpy) is now deprecated and is replaced with llvmlite (https://github.com/numba/llvmlite). Are there any plans to migrate bitey from llvm-py to llvmlite? Thanks!

[dabeaz]

Oh. I didn't have any specific plans, but that's a good idea.

[sowani]

Thanks! I will explore the migration to llvmlite.

[dabeaz]

I've been using llvmlite in my compilers course. Switching from llvmpy was relatively straightforward if my memory serves. Bitey is a bit unusual in what it does so I don't know if that will also be the case or not. However, making this work with llvmlite would be great as it comes shipped by default with Anaconda.

[dabeaz]

I took a brief look at llvmlite. It can almost be used for bitey--almost. It's missing the ability to get argument types and result types from the functions in imported LLVM bitcode modules. This makes migration impossible at the moment. However, it might be possible to explore some workarounds. Perhaps an upstream patch to llvmlite to make it work.

[flying-sheep]

Should be there by now, no? function.ftype?

[dabeaz]

I can't look at it right this moment, but if this is something that got added and someone thinks they can make it work, I'd definitely be interested! Bitey is not large so I'd encourage some playing around.