Hi,
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 08:18:27AM -0700, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
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> This is okay with the changes/considering the questions above.
>
thanks for the feedback. I have committed the following after
incorporating the comments.
Martin
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<!-- <h3 id="avr">AVR</h3> -->
+<h3 id="hsa">Heterogeneous Systems Architecture</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><p>GCC can now generate HSAIL (Heterogeneous System Architecture
+ Intermediate Language) for simple OpenMP device constructs if
+ configured with <code>--enable-offload-targets=hsa</code>. A new
+ libgomp plugin then runs the HSA GPU kernels implementing these
+ constructs on HSA capable GPUs via a standard HSA run time.</p>
+
+ <p>If the HSA compilation back end determines it cannot output HSAIL
+ for a particular input, it gives a warning by default. These
+ warnings can be suppressed with <code>-Wno-hsa</code>. To give a few
+ examples, the HSA back end does not implement compilation of code
+ using function pointers, automatic allocation of variable sized
+ arrays, functions with variadic arguments as well as a number of
+ other less common programming constructs.</p>
+
+ <p>When compilation for HSA is enabled, the compiler attempts to
+ compile composite OpenMP constructs
+ <blockquote><pre>
+#pragma omp target teams distribute parallel for</pre></blockquote>
+ into parallel HSA GPU kernels.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
<h3 id="x86">IA-32/x86-64</h3>
<ul>
<li>GCC now supports the Intel CPU named Skylake with AVX-512 extensions
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<h2 id="news">News</h2>
<dl>
+<dt><span> Heterogeneous Systems Architecture support</span>
+ <span class="date">[2016-01-27]</span></dt>
+ <dd><a href="http://www.hsafoundation.com/";> Heterogeneous Systems
+ Architecture 1.0</a> <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html#hsa";>
+ support was added to GCC</a>, contributed by Martin Jambor, Martin Liška
+ and Michael Matz from SUSE.</dd>
+
<dt><span><a href="gcc-5/">GCC 5.3</a> released</span>
<span class="date">[2015-12-04]</span></dt>
<dd></dd>
