[clang] [AMDGPU] add function attrbute amdgpu-lib-fun (PR #74737)
Joseph Huber via cfe-commits
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Fri Jan 12 11:37:41 PST 2024
jhuber6 wrote:
> > > An AMDGPU library function is not internalized and can be used to fullfill calls generated by LLVM passes or instruction selection.
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> > I am confused by the description of "internalized". Do you refer to LTO internalization? You can leverage `llvm.used` to disable LTO internalization.
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> Yes I mean LTO internalization. We want keep them to the backend but we also want to remove them if they are not used by the backend. `llvm.used` won't tell us that we can remove them since it could be specified by the users for non-amdgpu-library functions.
I wonder if we could just define another `llvm.used` similar to `llvm.compiler.used` for this special case where the variable can be thrown away by the backend.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/74737
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