ARM Hopes To Have OpenCL 2.0 Support Completed For LLVM Clang 3.9

Written by Michael Larabel in LLVM on 4 April 2016 at 08:15 AM EDT. 1 Comment
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Anastasia Stulova of ARM's Media Processing Group has provided an outline of their work on enabling OpenCL 2.0 support within the LLVM/Clang compiler stack.

The OpenCL 2.0 support in Clang should be better off than its current OpenCL 1.1/1.2 support. Many features are already implemented of CL 2.0 within the LLVM stack but some items remain:


The exciting news though is that ARM is hoping to have OpenCL 2.0 support completed for the Clang 3.9 release later in the year! You can find out more via these PDF presentation slides from Spain's EuroLLVM conference.
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