arsenm added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D10586#216803, @pekka.jaaskelainen wrote:

> Can you please clarify me a bit where the actual device is needed/used (ATM 
> only Kaveri) if the target is HSAIL, an "abstract machine"/IL? Just trying to 
> get my head around on how the Clang/LLVM will work for HSAIL.
>
> If it's for the extensions, why builtins-hsail.cl assumes gcn-specific 
> builtins are found in the output even though mcpu is not set in the test 
> command line?


It's used for enabling extension and some performance hacks. kaveri enables gcn 
extensions, and disables a few things like negative offsets for addressing 
modes.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D10586




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