Targeting Vulkan and SPIR-V

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 7 March 2015 at 02:18:22 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2015 23:30, "Joakim via Digitalmars-d" 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The ground-up redesign of OpenGL, now called Vulkan, has been 
>> announced
> at GDC:
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=khronos-vulcan-spirv
>>
>> Both graphics shaders and the latest verson of OpenCL, which 
>> enables
> computation on the GPU, will target a new IR called SPIR-V:
>>
>>
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/9039/khronos-announces-opencl-21-c-comes-to-opencl
>>
>> Rather than being forced to use C-like languages like GLSL or 
>> OpenCL in
> the past, this new IR will allow writing graphics shaders and 
> OpenCL code
> using any language, including a subset of C++14 stripped of 
> exceptions,
> function pointers, and virtual functions.
>>
>> This would be a good opportunity for D, if ldc or gdc could be 
>> made to
> target SPIR-V.  Ldc would seem to have a leg up, since SPIR was 
> originally
> based on LLVM IR before diverging with SPIR-V.
>
> Unlike LDC, GDC doesn't need to be *made* to target anything.  
> It's IR is
> high level enough that you don't need to think (nor care) about 
> your
> backend target.
>
> GCC itself will need a backend to support it though.  ;)
>
> Iain

Relevant: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-03/msg00020.html