GPU-aware compiling?

[Segher Boessenkool]

> Do you think - theoretically - that a compiler could help compiling 
> software, which would in turn use the power of the GPU to make some of 
> the computations?

Theoretically -- yes.  Of course.  But...

> Like now we have compiler options like "-mmmx  -msse  -msse2 -msse3
> -m3dnow" - would it be possible to optimize the code of the binary to 
> use the GPU with "-with-nvidia-gpu" or "-with-ati-gpu"?
>
> I would like to hear some theoretical discussion about that.

That's not what these mailing lists are about; they are about improving
the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC, for short).  Why not take it to
comp.compilers or something like that?


Segher