[llvm] r239100 - [NVPTX] roll forward r239082

[Tobias Grosser]

On 06/26/2015 06:41 PM, Jingyue Wu wrote:
> Sorry that I missed your previous email.
>
> I think it's a bug that should be fixed -- NVPTX should accept arguments
> that are already in global. Clang always emit generic pointers for
> kernel parameters, but we shouldn't restrict NVPTX to just Clang.
> Curiously, do you use front-ends other than Clang?\

In Polly we have some work on automatically extracting/generating kernel 
code from parallel loop nests.

> Xuetian recently did
> something similar to alloca. Not sure if that affects you too.

If it does I will complain. ;-)

Best,
Tobias