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[thesquiff]

When should I be using CALint? The examples and documentation seem a bit inconsistent, sometimes using CALint and sometimes using int. What is the difference?

Also does CAL have vector types, like the float4 available in Brook+?

Thanks

[rick_weber]

CALint is typedefed to int. In general, whenever using the CAL API, I would use CALint, so that if its type changes for some reason in the future, your code won't break.

Edit: Yes, it has vector types. When you allocate the resource, you tell it what type of resource it is (i.e. CAL_FORMAT_FLOAT_4 is the same as float4). CAL doesn't have float3s but you can emulate these using float4s.

[thesquiff]

Thanks for that, although I was hoping there'd be something like CALint2? Not that I *need* it, I'm converting some CUDA code and thought it would be a useful thing to have.

[rick_weber]

Cal does support int2. See page 3-11 in the Stream Computing User Guide.