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7 years ago

OpenCL compiler crashed when compile some piece of simple code

Hi there, I got some trouble when I was trying to compile some complex OpenCL program with Intel FPGA OpenCL Offline Compiler. then compiler crashed, so I try to remove some code to examine th...
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7 years ago

There are hundreds of bugs in Altera's compiler that could lead to such crashes. Your code snippet crashes the compiler all the way to the recent v18.0. In such cases, the only choices are to either change the design strategy to bypass the crash, or report it to Altera and then wait multiple months until they release a new version which might include a fix.