[LLVMdev] [RFC] Upstreaming LLVM/SPIR-V converter

Owen Anderson
2015-05-19T23:05:15Z

> On May 19, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Neil Henning <llvm at duskborn.com>
wrote:
>
> The 'backend' in this context is purely so that we can then enable
Clang to target SPIR-V in the same consistent manner to all the other targets it
supports.

This seems like a terrible reason to choose the architecture of how it’s
implemented in LLVM.  The clang driver is part of the LLVM project.  If we need
to add support for some kind of special SPIR-V flag akin to -emit-llvm, we can
do that.  If a particular frontend vendor wants to customize the flags, they can
always do so themselves.

—Owen
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