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I am trying to figure out how to access images that are of format CL_R and channel_type cl_uint8. As far as I can tell, the smallest read is read_imageh, does the read value get put in the low order bits of X?

Thanks,

Chris

[notzed]

section 6.11.13.2 of the opencl (1.1) specification (page 245) states that cl_uint8 must be read with read_imageui().  It reads a full zero-extended 32-bit integer value.

If it's real image data you're using, you probably want unorm_int8 and read/write_imagef as working with floats is a lot faster/simpler.