This is useful when we face certain intrinsics such as `llvm.exp.*`
which cannot be lowered by the NVPTX backend while other intrinsics can.
So, we would need to keep blacklists of intrinsics that cannot be
handled by the NVPTX backend. It is much simpler to try and promote
all intrinsics to libdevice versions.
This patch makes function/intrinsic very uniform, and will always try to use
a libdevice version if it exists.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37056
llvm-svn: 312239
Summary:
This allows us to map functions such as exp, expf, expl, for which no
LLVM intrinsics exist. Instead, we link to NVIDIA's libdevice which provides
high-performance implementations of a wide range of (math) functions. We
currently link only a small subset, the exp, cos and copysign functions. Other
functions will be enabled as needed.
Reviewers: bollu, singam-sanjay
Reviewed By: bollu
Subscribers: tstellar, tra, nemanjai, pollydev, mgorny, llvm-commits, kbarton
Tags: #polly
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35703
llvm-svn: 309560
Siddharth Bhat