tschuett added a comment.

In D140226#4003794 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D140226#4003794>, @jhuber6 wrote:

> In D140226#4003788 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D140226#4003788>, @tschuett 
> wrote:
>
>> There are already SYCL specific attributes: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60455
>
> We could potentially merge these all into some generic attribute since they 
> all do the same thing on a conceptual level. The unique thing about the 
> existing `amdgpu_kernel` and corresponding `nvptx_kernel` is that they don't 
> rely on the language options like `SYCL` or `CUDA`. Though, semantically 
> those are definitely involved because the kernel itself is only meaningful to 
> whatever runtime is going to load it (e.g. CUDA or HSA) but we can probably 
> consider that separately to the compilation itself and just think of these as 
> calling conventions.

But then you are maybe mixing two concepts. `kernel` is source code or AST 
feature. nvptx or AMDGPU are command line flags.


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