emankov added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/Cuda.cpp:161
+      if (FS.exists(LibDevicePath + "/libdevice.10.bc")) {
+        Version = CudaVersion::LATEST;
+        DetectedVersionIsNotSupported = Version > 
CudaVersion::LATEST_SUPPORTED;
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tra wrote:
> emankov wrote:
> > tra wrote:
> > > emankov wrote:
> > > > Do we have any other mechanism besides version.txt for determining an 
> > > > exact CUDA version? Setting the latest version in case of absence of 
> > > > version.txt doesn't suit all the needs: sometimes the exact version is 
> > > > taken into account, for instance in [[ 
> > > > https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIPIFY#clang | hipify-clang ]].
> > > Not easily. 
> > > 
> > > We could try running one of SDK binaries with `--version`. This would be 
> > > fragile as the tool version does not necessarily match the SDK's  and 
> > > NVIDIA has already started versioning elements per-component. E.g. some 
> > > shared libraries in 11.1 are already versioned as 10.2, 11.0, 11.1 and 
> > > 11.2. There are also situations when we had to cherry-pick a tool from a 
> > > different release in order to work around a critical bug. We don't want 
> > > to change compiler's idea of CUDA version based on that.
> > > 
> > > We could parse CUDA headers and try finding CUDA_VERSION macro. That's 
> > > feasible. It may be somewhat fragile if we just search for a text string 
> > > '#define CUDA_VERSION XXXX' -- nvidia may change it. On the other hand 
> > > it's not that much worse than relying on version.txt.  It also does not 
> > > carry complete version, only major.minor, so we will not be able to tell 
> > > `11.0 `apart from `11.0 update 1`. Probably not a big deal. I don't think 
> > > we've needed it so far.
> > > 
> > > We could do something like this:
> > > * if version.txt is there -- use it
> > > * otherwise if cuda.h is found, extract version from CUDA_VERSION macro
> > > * if that failed, use libdevice bitcode format to detect CUDA-7.0
> > > * fall back to "last supported version" otherwise
> > > 
> > I'd appreciate the appearance of the step with a version extraction from 
> > CUDA_VERSION macro.
> D89832 does exactly that. PTAL.
Ok, I'll try it.


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