Is there a way to run code from @code_native

General Usage
1

I want to @code_native a function, make some edits to the assembly and then run it.

For example a function I want to edit is

using SIMD

f(x, y) = any(x > y)

x = Vec{8, Float32}(1)
y = Vec{8, Float32}(0)

I would like some way to copy @code_native debuginfo=:none f(x, y) and then run it.

2

You can llvmcall and use assembly, but you’d need to edit it.
Alternatively, if it’s big enough that those modifications are unwieldy, you could compile into a shared library with gcc and ccall it.

Here is an example: VectorizationBase.jl/intrin_funcs.jl at 2842337a85aefc5e3352e1b6272589f4e53c58ee · JuliaSIMD/VectorizationBase.jl · GitHub
See here for more details: LLVM Language Reference Manual — LLVM 17.0.0git documentation

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