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12 years ago

C++ support for AOCL

Does the OpenCL SDK support C++? If so, what are the limitations? The prorgramming guide isn't quite clear on C++ support (at least, from a quick glance-through)
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12 years ago

This.

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as far as I know it's typically just in the form of a wrapper that sits in between your host code and the underlining runtime implemented in C.

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Just save cl.hpp (http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/api/1.2/cl.hpp) in $ALTERAOCLSDKROOT/host/include/CL and voilà. You then include cl.hpp instead and make use of all the C++ goodness.

I can't see why Altera doesn't ship this header as part of its SDK. I've been using it since the beginning and I never had any problems.