[libc-commits] [PATCH] D152028: [libc][Docs] Add some motivation for the GPU libc

[Johannes Doerfert via Phabricator via libc-commits]

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.

I still think it's too negative but OK for now



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Comment at: libc/docs/gpu/motivation.rst:38
+that traditionally were run on the CPU. With this support, we can expand test 
+coverage for the GPU backend to the existing LLVM C library tests.
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@tianshilei1992 Can you link the IWOMP paper here please. In a follow up.


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Comment at: libc/docs/gpu/motivation.rst:47-48
+currently support thread local variables in all cases, so variables like 
+``errno`` are not provided. Furthermore, the GPU under the OpenCL model cannot 
+safely provide a mutex interface, nor would it be profitable if implemented. 
+This means that features like file buffering are not implemented on the GPU. We 
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