yaxunl added a comment. In D53153#1315039 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D53153#1315039>, @scott.linder wrote:
> In D53153#1314798 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D53153#1314798>, @rjmccall wrote: > > > You still have the same linkage model for those other languages, right? > > Ultimately there's something like a kernel function that has to be declared > > specially and which becomes the only public interface of the code? > > > I don't think this is true for all languages targeting AMDGPU. For example, > HIP has APIs like `hipMemcpyToSymbol` which accept a string identifying a > symbol for a variable in global/constant address space. @yaxunl is my > understanding about the HIP runtime requiring dynamic symbols for global > variables correct here? Right. There is also hipGetSymbolAddress which returns address of a global variable in device memory given the name of the variable. Therefore we cannot hide the global variables. CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D53153/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D53153 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
