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@settitle The GNU BRIG (HSAIL) Compiler
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* Gccbrig: (gccbrig).           A GCC-based compiler for BRIG/HSAIL finalization
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@title The GNU BRIG (HSAIL) Compiler
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@author Pekka Jääskeläinen

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@node Top
@top Introduction

This manual describes how to use @command{gccbrig}, the GNU compiler for
the binary representation (BRIG) of the HSA Intermediate Language (HSAIL).
For more information about the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Foundation's standards in general, see @uref{http://www.hsafoundation.com/}.

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* Using Gccbrig::               How to use Gccbrig.
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@node Using Gccbrig
@chapter Using Gccbrig

@c man title gccbrig A GCC-based compiler for HSAIL

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gccbrig [@option{-c}|@option{-S}]
        [@option{-O}@var{level}] [@option{-L}@var{dir}@dots{}]
        [@option{-o} @var{outfile}] @var{infile}@dots{}

Gccbrig is typically not invoked from the command line, but
through an HSA finalizer implementation.
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@c man begin SEEALSO
The Info entry for @file{gccbrig} and
@uref{https://github.com/HSAFoundation/phsa}
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@c man begin DESCRIPTION gccbrig

The BRIG frontend (@command{gccbrig}) differs from the
other frontends in GCC on how it's typically used.  It's a translator
for an intermediate language that is not meant to be written directly
by programmers.  Its input format BRIG is a binary representation of
HSAIL, which is a textual assembly format for an imaginary machine
of which instruction set is defined in HSA Programmer Reference Manual
(PRM) Specification.  Gccbrig currently implements the Base profile
of the PRM version 1.0.

HSA Runtime Specification defines an API which includes means
to build and launch ``kernels'' from a host program running on a CPU
to one or more heterogeneous ``kernel agents''. A kernel Agent
is typically a GPU or a DSP device controlled by the CPU.
The build phase is called ``finalization'', which means translation of
one or more target-independent BRIG files describing the program that
one wants to run in the Agent to the Agent's instruction set.  Gccbrig
implements the translation process by generating GENERIC, which is
translated to the ISA of any supported GCC target by the GCC's backend
framework, thus enabling potentially any GCC target to act as an HSA agent.

As the kernel finalization process can be only launched from the host API,
@command{gccbrig} is not typically used directly from the command line by
the end user, but through an HSA runtime implementation that implements
the finalizer API running on the host CPU.  Gccbrig is
designed to work with an open source HSA runtime implementation
called ``phsa-runtime'', which can be installed from
@uref{https://github.com/HSAFoundation/phsa-runtime}.  Phsa-runtime
has an example Agent driver that allows any GCC-supported CPU to act as
a kernel Agent.  The web page has further installation instructions for
setting up it to work with a gccbrig binary installed with the GCC.

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