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Offload host2 r? `@oli-obk` A follow-up to my previous gpu host PR. With this, I can (in theory) run a sufficiently simple Rust function on GPUs. I tested it on AMD, where the amdgcn tartget of rustc causes issues due to Addressspace castings, which might not be valid. If I (manually) fix them, I can run the generated IR on an AMD GPU. This should conceptually also work on NVIDIA or Intel. I updated the dev-guide acordingly: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/offload/usage.html I am unhappy with the amount of standalone functions in my offload code, so in my second commit I bundled some of the code around two structs which are Rust versions of the LLVM/Offload structs which they represent. The structs themselves only have doc comments. Since I directly lower everything to llvm-ir I didn't saw a big value in modelling the struct member variables.
The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR,
and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code
that runs towards the end of the compilation process.
For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.