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Release Notes
The release notes for the ROCm platform.
ROCm 5.0.1
Deprecations and Warnings
Refactor of HIPCC/HIPCONFIG
In prior ROCm releases, by default, the hipcc/hipconfig Perl scripts were used to identify and set target compiler options, target platform, compiler, and runtime appropriately.
In ROCm v5.0.1, hipcc.bin and hipconfig.bin have been added as the compiled binary implementations of the hipcc and hipconfig. These new binaries are currently a work-in-progress, considered, and marked as experimental. ROCm plans to fully transition to hipcc.bin and hipconfig.bin in the a future ROCm release. The existing hipcc and hipconfig Perl scripts are renamed to hipcc.pl and hipconfig.pl respectively. New top-level hipcc and hipconfig Perl scripts are created, which can switch between the Perl script or the compiled binary based on the environment variable HIPCC_USE_PERL_SCRIPT.
In ROCm 5.0.1, by default, this environment variable is set to use hipcc and hipconfig through the Perl scripts.
Subsequently, Perl scripts will no longer be available in ROCm in a future release.