generatePTX: Convert LLVM IR code to PTX

In duncantl/Rnvvm: R bindings for NVIDIA's libNVVM

Description

This function converts code in LLVM's IR format to PTX using libNVVM. The function can read the IR code from a file or have it be passed directly as content.

Usage

generatePTX(irCode, 
            name = if(isFile) 
                      irCode 
                   else 
                      as.character(Sys.time()),
            options = character(),
            prog = createProgram(),
           isFile = !is(irCode, "AsIs") && (length(irCode) == 1 && file.exists(irCode)))

Arguments

irCode	the name of the file containing the IR code or a character vector containing the IR code itself. If this is the code itself, we can indicate this via the isFile parameter or by passing the content within a call to I.
name	the name of the module/program
options	a character vector of options passed to compileProgram. The possible options are described in compileProgram.
prog	a nvvmProgram object used to compile the code. Often we are compiling a single block of code and so can use a new program object. When we want to combine code from different translation units/modules, we can create a program with createProgram and pass this object explicitly.
isFile	a logical value that allows the caller to explicitly indicate whether the value of irCode is the name of a file or the code itself.

Value

A string (character vector with one element) containing the PTX code. This has a class named PTXCode.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

References

libNVVM documentation

See Also

createProgram

Examples

f = system.file("sampleCode", "simple-gpu64.ll", package = "Rnvvm")
ptx = generatePTX(f, isFile = TRUE)
cat(ptx)

duncantl/Rnvvm documentation built on May 15, 2019, 5:56 p.m.