Radeon GCC Compute Back-End Approved For Merging In The Upcoming GCC9 Compiler

[juno]

BTW, this comes nearly in time for GCN to become obsolete!
:-/

GCN obsolete? Do you know more than the rest of the world does?

[coder]

Now, someone just needs to port libc to it.

BTW, this comes nearly in time for GCN to become obsolete!
:-/

[Michael]

How does one use this? Does it call to the accelerator from within your CPU OpenMP loops?

The GCC Offloading Wiki page - https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Offloading - though haven't looked yet to see if the AMD GCN back-end would follow the same approach or other limitations, etc.

[microcode]

How does one use this? Does it call to the accelerator from within your CPU OpenMP loops?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon GCC Compute Back-End Approved For Merging In The Upcoming GCC9 Compiler

As a follow-up to the story a few days ago about interest in getting the Radeon GCC compiler back-end merged for this year's GNU Compiler Collection 9 (GCC9) release, it's been approved!..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-GCC-Merge-Approved