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...hat there will be real benefit for people to write their own shader/kernel languages using the awesome infrastructure that LLVM and Clang provides, and I for one want to enable the community to do just that. > I would be actively opposed to seeing changes in this direction land > without substaintial further discussion and active > contribution/ownership by an existing active member of the LLVM > community. We would be very happy for 'an existing active member of the LLVM community' to help us in our endeavours, but to 'actively oppose' the inclusion of our code ba...

Khronos Group SPIR WG is working on a bi-way converter between LLVM bitcode and SPIR-V (https://www.khronos.org/registry/spir-v/specs/1.0/SPIRV.pdf ) binary and is willing to upstream it to the LLVM project. The bi-way converter uses a common in-memory representation of SPIR-V. It works by breaking down a module to instructions and construct the translated module in memory then output it.