[llvm-dev] [SPIR-V] SPIR-V in LLVM

Pete Cooper via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jul 17 10:26:28 PDT 2017


Hi Neil

> On Jul 17, 2017, at 6:55 AM, Neil Henning via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> I did not want to make the mistake of forking LLVM/Clang - so there are a bunch of passes in there that are us undoing things that Clang has options for (if we had a SPIRV triple).
Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on this?  What is clang doing wrong, and why does a new triple solve it?

Also, we have loads of triple's for targets not in LLVM.  You should just add one for SPIRV if you need it.  I can't imagine that being controversial to folks.

Cheers,
Pete
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