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11 years ago

Pipe API

Hi I am using the altera opencl . I downloaded the BSP (14.0 / 14.1) from the website. But I can't use the pipe api ( error: ‘clCreatePipe’ was not declared in this scope ) I can't ...
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11 years ago

The doc says that pipes are part of the OpenCL 2.0 standard. The Altera SDK does support them, but due to some other functionality from 1.1 and onward missing, it is only fully compliant to 1.0. It says that pipes (providing channel-like functionality) should be used if you need your kernels to compile under other SDKs such as the AMD one.