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| <h1>Restrictions</h1> |
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| <a id="restrictions"></a> |
| <h2></h2> |
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| <ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p>The use of pointers is somewhat restricted. The following rules apply:</p> |
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| <p> |
| Arguments to <a class="citerefentry" href="functionQualifiers.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__kernel</span></span></a> |
| functions declared in a program that are pointers must be declared with the |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="global.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__global</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="constant.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__constant</span></span></a>, or |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="local.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__local</span></span></a> |
| qualifier. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: circle"> |
| <p> |
| A pointer declared with the |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="constant.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__constant</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="local.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__local</span></span></a>, or |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="global.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__global</span></span></a> |
| qualifier can only be assigned to a pointer declared with the __constant, __local, or |
| __global qualifier respectively. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: circle"> |
| <p>Pointers to functions are not allowed.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: circle"> |
| <p> |
| Arguments to <a class="citerefentry" href="functionQualifiers.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__kernel</span></span></a> |
| functions in a program cannot be declared as a pointer to a pointer(s). Variables |
| inside a function or arguments to non-kernel functions in a program can be |
| declared as a pointer to a pointer(s). |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| An image type ( |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image2d_t</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image3d_t</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image2d_array_t</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image1d_t</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image1d_buffer_t</span></span></a>, or |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image1d_array_t</span></span></a>) |
| can only be used as the type of a function argument. An image function |
| argument cannot be modified. Elements of an image can only be accessed |
| using the <a class="citerefentry" href="imageFunctions.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Built-in Image |
| Functions</span></span></a>. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| An image type cannot be used to declare a variable, a structure or |
| union field, an array of images, a pointer to an image, or the return |
| type of a function. An image type cannot be used with the |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="private.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__private</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="local.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__local</span></span></a> and |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="constant.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__constant</span></span></a> |
| address space qualifiers. The <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image3d_t</span></span></a> |
| type cannot be used with the __write_only access qualifier unless the |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="cl_khr_3d_image_writes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cl_khr_3d_image_writes</span></span></a> |
| extension is enabled. An image type cannot be used with the |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="accessQualifiers.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__read_write</span></span></a> |
| access qualifer which is reserved for future use. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| The sampler type |
| (<a class="citerefentry" href="sampler_t.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sampler_t</span></span></a>) can only be |
| used as the type of a function argument or a variable declared in the program scope |
| or the outermost scope of a kernel function. The behavior of a sampler variable |
| declared in a non-outermost scope of a kernel function is implementation-defined. A |
| sampler argument or variable cannot be modified. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| The sampler type cannot be used to declare a structure or union field, an array of |
| samplers, a pointer to a sampler, or the return type of a function. The sampler type |
| cannot be used with the __local and __global address space qualifiers. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p>Bit-fields struct members are currently not supported.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p>Variable length arrays and structures with flexible (or unsized) arrays are not supported.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p>Variadic macros and functions are not supported.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| The library functions defined in the C99 standard headers <code class="code">assert.h</code>, |
| <code class="code">ctype.h</code>, <code class="code">complex.h</code>, <code class="code">errno.h</code>, |
| <code class="code">fenv.h</code>, <code class="code">float.h</code>, <code class="code">inttypes.h</code>, |
| <code class="code">limits.h</code>, <code class="code">locale.h</code>, <code class="code">setjmp.h</code>, |
| <code class="code">signal.h</code>, <code class="code">stdarg.h</code>, <code class="code">stdio.h</code>, |
| <code class="code">stdlib.h</code>, <code class="code">string.h</code>, <code class="code">tgmath.h</code>, |
| <code class="code">time.h</code>, <code class="code">wchar.h</code>, and <code class="code">wctype.h</code> are not |
| available and cannot be included by a program. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p>The <code class="code">auto</code> and <code class="code">register</code> storage-class specifiers are not supported.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p>Recursion is not supported.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| The function using the |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="functionQualifiers.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__kernel</span></span></a> |
| qualifier can only have return type <span class="type">void</span> in the source code. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| Arguments to kernel functions in a program cannot be declared with the built-in |
| scalar types <span class="type">bool</span>, <span class="type">half</span>, <span class="type">size_t</span>, |
| <span class="type">ptrdiff_t</span>, <span class="type">intptr_t</span>, and <span class="type">uintptr_t</span>, or |
| a struct and/or union that contain fields declared to be one of these built-in |
| scalar types. The size in bytes of these types except <span class="type">half</span> are |
| implementation-defined and in addition can also be different for the OpenCL device |
| and the host processor making it difficult to allocate buffer objects to be passed |
| as arguments to a kernel declared as pointer to these types. <span class="type">half</span> is |
| not supported as <span class="type">half</span> can be used as a storage format only (unless the |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="cl_khr_fp16.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cl_khr_fp16</span></span></a> extension is |
| supported) and is not a data type on which floating-point arithmetic can be performed. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p>Whether or not irreducible control flow is illegal is implementation defined.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| Arguments to kernel functions in a program cannot be declared to be of type |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">event_t</span></span></a>. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| Elements of a struct or union must belong to the same address space. Declaring a |
| struct or union whose elements are in different address spaces is illegal. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| Arguments to kernel functions that are declared to be a struct or union do not |
| allow OpenCL objects to be passed as elements of the struct or union. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| The type qualifiers <code class="code">const</code>, <code class="code">restrict</code>, and <code class="code">volatile</code> |
| as defined by the C99 specification are supported. These qualifiers cannot be used with |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image2d_t</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image3d_t</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image2d_array_t</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image1d_t</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image1d_buffer_t</span></span></a>, and |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">image1d_array_t</span></span></a> types. |
| Types other than pointer types shall not use the <code class="code">restrict</code> qualifier. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li class="listitem" style="list-style-type: disc"> |
| <p> |
| The event type |
| (<a class="citerefentry" href="otherDataTypes.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">event_t</span></span></a>) |
| cannot be used as the type of a kernel function argument. The event type cannot be used to |
| declare a program scope variable. The event type cannot be used to declare a structure or |
| union field. The event type cannot be used with the |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="local.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__local</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="constant.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__constant</span></span></a>, and |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="global.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">__global</span></span></a> |
| address space qualifiers. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <div class="refsect1"> |
| <a id="specification"></a> |
| <h2>Specification</h2> |
| <p><img src="pdficon_small1.gif" /> |
| <a href="http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/specs/opencl-1.2.pdf#page=231" target="OpenCL Spec">OpenCL Specification</a> |
| </p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="refsect1"> |
| <a id="seealso"></a> |
| <h2>Also see</h2> |
| <p> |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="imageFunctions.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Image Functions</span></span></a>, |
| <a class="citerefentry" href="functionQualifiers.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Function Qualifiers</span></span></a> |
| </p> |
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