nodeIntrinsic to load an hsail kernarg

[Doug Simon]

On May 15, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Deneau, Tom <tom.deneau at amd.com> wrote:

> I would like to create special HSAILNode with a @NodeIntrinsic which would end up generating HSAIL code to load from a named kernarg.  So for instance if the kernel prologue had
>     align 8 kernarg_f64  %_foo,
> 
> I could write snippet code something like
>         double someVar = HSAILKernArgNode.loadDouble("%_foo”);

This should work as long as the above call is in a @Snippet annotated method. Is that the case? If so, you need to find out why NodeIntrinsificationPhase is not being called for the snippet.

-Doug