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settle
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clc++ and overloaded vloadn and vstoren functions

I just tried using the AMD APP KernelAnalyzer with the OpenCL Complier Option "-x clc++", but I noticed something wasn't overloaded that I hoped.  In OpenCL C as defined in "The OpenCL Programming Language 1.2. Rev15 Khronos 2011," it seems that vloadn and vstoren are defined through some overloaded functions somewhere in the OpenCL C Compiler, possibly something like the following:

template <typename gentype4, typename gentype>

__kernel void vstore4(gentype4 data, size_t offset, const __global gentype *p);

I'd like to suggest that the OpenCL C++ Compiler extend the overloading further to something like the following:

template <typename gentypen, typename gentype>

__kernel void vstoren(gentypen data, size_t offset, const __global gentype *p);

template __attribute__((mangled_name(vstore4)))

__kernel void vstoren(gentype4 data, size_t offset, const __global gentype *p);

At the moment I don't see something like that available.

Cheers!

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kcarney
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OpenCL C++ support is still evolving. Thank you for the feedback!

Cheers!

Kristen

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