Using LDC2 with --march=amdgcn

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Sunday, 24 July 2022 at 18:44:42 UTC, realhet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that the LDC2 compiler has an architecture target 
> called "AMD GCN".
>
> Is there an example code which is in D and generates a working 
> binary of a hello world kernel.
>
> I tried it, and just failed at the very beginning: How can I 
> specify __kernel and __global in D?

As mentioned by Johan, LDC in conjunction with dcompute is the 
closest thing.

You can use LDC to generate SPIR-V binaries with which I believe 
you should be able to use with the OpenCL implementation for that 
platform using dcompute to drive OpenCL.