[cfe-dev] [RfC] A proposal of adding SPIR-V Toolchain in Clang

[Friedman, Eli via cfe-dev]

On 9/10/2018 8:10 AM, Anastasia Stulova via cfe-dev wrote:
> This will result in the following Clang actions:
>
> (1) clang -cc1 -triple spirv[32|64]-unknown-unknown test.cl -emit-llvm-bc -o test.bc
>
> (2) llvm-spirv test.bc -o test.spv

Even if llvm-spirv is technically a separate binary, it's still tightly 
coupled to the clang version because the bitcode format changes over 
time; it would be a support nightmare if clang shipped by llvm.org 
passes bitcode to some binary which isn't shipped by llvm.org.

-Eli

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