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| author | Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk> | 2011-11-29 02:03:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk> | 2011-11-29 02:03:07 +0000 |
| commit | 375f7c48428ef64920dab4017a056ee1d6989ed1 (patch) | |
| tree | a3dc3defc591acade1a01f338b60c030e5b107ac /docs/ReleaseNotes.html | |
| parent | 5cc989e8d709037420e02c0bb4c77c851c518277 (diff) | |
Add Clang release notes for OpenCL C support.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@145360 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 95d92a2309..68f913d165 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -211,13 +211,20 @@ these use cases have improved through the introduction of "unknown" types and other AST constructs designed specifically for use cases without complete information about the C++ construct being formed. -<!-- -Need Peter and/or Tanya to flesh this out if we want it in 3.0's notes.. The -state isn't clear just from documentation or commit logs. - -<h4 id="opencl">Initial work to support compiling OpenCL with Clang</h4> -Clang has some (limited) support for compiling OpenCL. ---> +<h4 id="opencl">Initial work to support compiling OpenCL C with Clang</h4> +<p>Clang has some (limited) support for compiling OpenCL C. The 3.0 +release adds support for the <tt>vec_step</tt> operator, address space +qualifiers (<tt>__private</tt>, <tt>__global</tt>, <tt>__local</tt> and +<tt>__constant</tt>), improved vector literal support and code generation +support for the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#PTX">PTX +target</a>.</p> + +<p>Using the <a href="http://www.pcc.me.uk/~peter/libclc/">libclc library</a> +to supply OpenCL C built-ins, you can use Clang to compile OpenCL C code +into PTX and execute it by loading the resulting PTX as a binary blob using +the nVidia OpenCL library. It has been tested with several OpenCL programs, +including some from the nVidia GPU Computing SDK, and the performance is on +par with the nVidia compiler.</p> <!-- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = --> <h3 id="cchanges">C Language Changes in Clang</h3> |