[clang] [cuda][[HIP] `__constant__` should imply constant (PR #110182)
Alex Voicu via cfe-commits
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Thu Sep 26 16:29:05 PDT 2024
AlexVlx wrote:
> `__constant__` may not necessarily be `const` for IR purposes. I.e. IR may not rely on the 'known' values, as seen in IR, as the data may actually be populated by the host via CUDA API calls `cudaMemcpyToSymbol` before the GPU kernel launch.
But since this is marked `externally_initialised` on the device side, one would assume that those semantics still hold i.e. there's no known value to assume?
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110182
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