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Re: OpenACC
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:27:15 +0100
- Subject: Re: OpenACC
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- References: <528D3A8D dot 9070509 at codesourcery dot com>
* Nathan Sidwell:
> Targeting PTX, an ISA for use with a single manufacturer's devices, is
> not different from targeting the other single-manufacturer ISAs that
> GCC already supports.
The GCC licensing exception explicitly permits targeting virtual
instruction sets, which (to me at least) strongly suggets that even
the FSF is not opposed to such a technology.