[OpenCL] change default address space of pointers in CL2.0 mode

[Anastasia Stulova]

Thanks Sameer! I will have a look at it.

Anastasia

-----Original Message-----
From: Sahasrabuddhe, Sameer [mailto:sameer.sahasrabuddhe at amd.com]
Sent: 22 November 2014 10:36
To: Anastasia Stulova; 'Matt Arsenault'; 'Pekka Jääskeläinen'; cfe-commits at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [OpenCL] change default address space of pointers in CL2.0 mode


On 11/21/2014 12:14 AM, Anastasia Stulova wrote:
> Ok. If there are multiple use cases for this, perhaps, it's worth
> trying to add 'private' to the list of OpenCL address spaces in Clang.
>
> On 11/17/2014 10:41 AM, Anastasia Stulova wrote:
>> One of the difficulty is that Clang currently treats private address
>> space just the same as if no address space qualifier was specified.
>> That makes it difficult to find a right place to handle the default
>> address space behaviour, because information becomes unavailable early on.

The provisional SPIR 2.0 generator from Khronos seems to handle this already. Would you consider porting that code to trunk? As far as I know, the OpenCL WG would be happy to see this upstreamed.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIR/tree/spir_20_provisional

Sameer.



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