[PATCH] D68746: [Clang][OpenMP Offload] Move offload registration code to the wrapper

Sergey Dmitriev via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 10 15:03:17 PDT 2019


sdmitriev added inline comments.


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Comment at: clang/tools/clang-offload-wrapper/ClangOffloadWrapper.cpp:174
+  /// Global variable that represents BinDesc is returned.
+  GlobalVariable *createBinDesc(ArrayRef<ArrayRef<char>> Bufs) {
+    // Create external begin/end symbols for the offload entries table.
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ABataev wrote:
> Why `ArrayRef<char>`, not `StringRef`? It has a constructor for pointer/length pair.
Well, in this context StringRef type would be similar to ArrayRef<char>, but with extra operations for string manipulations. Since we know that device images are not strings, we do not really need any string operations for image buffers and therefore I think ArrayRef<char> is a better choice here.


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