SUSE Developers Publish Radeon GCN Backend Code For GCC Compiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SUSE Developers Publish Radeon GCN Backend Code For GCC Compiler

While the AMDGPU "GCN" compiler support in LLVM is quite mature now, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) hasn't yet received a full-fledged GCN compiler back-end for AMD GPUs. SUSE developers have been working on that for AMD and today they have published their code branch. This GCN back-end for GCC is primarily focused on compute capabilities rather than compiling graphics shaders...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCN-For-GCC-Branch

[starshipeleven]

For those wondering wtf is those ROCx acronyms and where that stuff is, it's Radeon Open Compute

and the source repos are here https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute

[boffo]

Does this news means that the date we will be able to code in standard c/c++ a graphics card is closer?

[Mangix]

What's the point of this? OpenCL support is available already via Clover and the proprietary(soon open source) stack.

[oleid]

This is not about OpenCL, this is about compiling languages GCC supports for AMD GPUs.

[orome]

Does this news means that the date we will be able to code in standard c/c++ a graphics card is closer?

you can do that using HCC. There will always be limitations (unless you redesign hw), for things like recursive function calls.

[andrei_me]

How this news relates to the other HSA efforts?