LLVM Begins Landing The Initial DirectX / HLSL Target Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM Begins Landing The Initial DirectX / HLSL Target Code

Earlier this month I wrote about Microsoft engineers wanting to add DirectX and HLSL support into the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler. As of this week the very early bits of code are beginning to land in LLVM 15.0 for this Microsoft graphics effort...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Starts-DX-HLSL-Code-Land

[tildearrow]

I guess Microsoft are tired of maintaining Visual...

[CommunityMember]

I guess Microsoft are tired of maintaining Visual...

Feels like Microsoft heard their customers complaining that DXC (based on LLVM 3.7) was no longer meeting their needs. Backporting modern LLVM capabilities/features into DXC was probably not really an option, so up-streaming new/revised/improved capabilities was likely a better use of the engineering resources in the long term.

[brad0]

I guess Microsoft are tired of maintaining Visual...

I guess it is not surprising you could not even read a few sentences.

[Quackdoc]

I wonder if this could be used for emulators? im not sure if this could be of any benefit.

[qarium]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22995144/microsoft-foreign-corrupt-practices-bribery-whistleblower-contracting

[yurikoles]

I wonder if this could be used for emulators? im not sure if this could be of any benefit.

They may be theoretical benefit for Windows host, they may emulate some OpenCL / Vulkan / SPIR-V via LLVM to DirectX backend.