Re: [Starpu-devel] setting the clBuildProgram() option parameter

[Cédric Augonnet <cedric.augonnet@inria.fr>]

On 04/04/2011 17:39, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote:
> clBuildProgram() is called within 
> starpu_opencl_load_opencl_from_string() with a hard-coded options 
> parameter of "-Werror -cl-mad-enable". I would like to be able to set 
> different options, such as include paths and macro definitions for the 
> opencl kernels I am using with starpu.
>
> If I were to add support for different option strings, what would be 
> an appropriate/preferred way to do so? Options I can see are:
>  - extra parameter passed to the function (which needs to be added to 
> other functions, too)
>  - extra const char* field in struct starpu_opencl_program (one option 
> for all opencl programs)
>  - array of const char* fields in struct starpu_opencl_program, one 
> for each program
>  - environment variable
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan.
Hi Jonathan,

Thanks again for your valuable feedback! Would not an extra "const char 
*" parameter to both starpu_opencl_load_opencl_from_file and 
starpu_opencl_load_opencl_from_string be sufficient ? This seems to be 
the most natural and also the cleanest solution.

Best,
Cédric