SPIRV-LLVM-Translator project
(https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator) from Khronos
Group is a tool and a library for bi-directional translation between
SPIR-V and LLVM IR. In its backward translation from SPIR-V to LLVM IR
SPIRV-LLVM-Translator isn't necessarily able to cover the same SPIR-V
patterns/instructions set that SPIRV Backend produces, even if we target
the same SPIR-V version in both SPIRV-LLVM-Translator and SPIRV Backend
projects.
To improve interoperability and ability to apply SPIRV Backend output in
different products this PR introduces a notion of a mode of SPIR-V
output that is compatible with a subset of SPIR-V supported by
SPIRV-LLVM-Translator. This includes a new command line option that
doesn't influence default behavior of SPIRV Backend and one test case
that demonstrates how this command line option may be used to get a
practical benefit of producing that one of two possible and similar
output options that can be understood by SPIRV-LLVM-Translator.
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