Den Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:24:55 +0200
skrev Re: [pocl-devel] Supporting other languages than OpenCL C for
kernels:


> How the kernels are compiled is unclear; whether one is able to use
> the standard OpenCL compilation APIs to produce the SPIR binaries
> or not.

According to SPIR 1.2 (provisional) specification, SPIR is defined as
whatever 'clang -target spir-unknown-unknown -S -emit-llvm' spews out, 
so that should not be an issue - just call clCreateProgramWithBinary
with that LLVM IR/BC file as input. I tried this when looking into the
AMP compiler, and ran into 'linking libs of different targets' issue -
the kernel lib was native-target .bc...

Also one thing to look out for is external libraries in the
non-OpenCL-C code. If pocl would support C++ as kernel language, I
predict a flood of issues from accidental use of std::vector or
std::cout in the kernels ;)

So yes, I am all in favour of trying this out. But only after 0.9!

kalle

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