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AMD GCN3 / Fiji Support Being Retired From The GCC Compiler


The AMD GCN3 (GFX8) support and in particular the Fiji GPU support is being retired from the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)

Andrew Stubbs of Bay Libre explained of the Fiji GPU support removal in patches posted today: Without the ROCm driver support working for these aging GPUs, there isn't much left use in keeping the GCC back-end bits in place. The AMDGCN GCC support is primarily geared for OpenMP and OpenACC device offloading to AMD GPUs.

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