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LLVM Targets

LLVM Targets

By Oleg / December 8, 2016

With =sys-devel/llvm-3.9.0 new llvm_targets introduced which are relying on llvm's build system for a specific microarchitecture host targets support[1,2]:

  • AMDGPU support for AMD & ATI graphic cards.
  • X86 support for 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 arch.
  • BPF support for Berkley Packet Filtering.
  • ARM support for ARM processors.
  • NVPTX support for NVIDIA cards.

By default following targets enabled:

  • 32- and 64-bit arch profiles: X86, AMDGPU, BPF and NVPTX
  • arm profile: ARM and BPF