Hey, On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> This had been done in > wwwdocs commit 5c7ecfb5627e412a3d142d8dc212f4cd39b3b73f > "Document deprecation of OpenMP MIC offloading in GCC 12". > > I'm sad about this, because -- in theory -- such a plugin is very useful > for offloading simulation/debugging (separate host/device memory spaces, > allow sanitizers to run on offloaded code Yeah, I think that's a _very_ useful feature, but indeed ... > (like LLVM a while ago > implemented), and so on), but all that doesn't help -- in practice -- if > nobody is maintaining that code. ... it should then be somewhat maintained properly. Maybe the MIC-specifics could be removed from the code, and it could be transformed into a "null"-offload target, as example and testing vehicle (and implying that such new liboffloadmic^H^H^Hnull would have its upstream in the GCC repo). Alas, if noone is going to do that work removing is the right choice. Ciao, Michael.
