Re: [Boost-users] [proto] using proto with nvcc

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [proto] using proto with nvcc
From: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-09 00:43:30

On Feb 8, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth  
> <kbelco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>  The CUDA compiler (nvcc) is, in essence, a C compiler not C++.
>
> This is incorrect.
>
>> You'll need to read the documentation but C++ code is
>> compiled by a host compiler (g++, etc...) while nvcc is used to  
>> compile
>> device (GPU) specific C-like code.
>
> The device-specific compiler has a C++ front-end, complete with
> templates, specializations, etc. + NVIDIA-specific extensions. The
> complication is that code that targets both the "device" (GPU) and the
> "host" (CPU) needs to be compatible with at least 2 front-ends (NVCC
> and GCC/MSVC), but that's not unusual for Boost in general.

Oh, I guess things have changed a bit since I last used CUDA.  Sorry  
about the bad info.

-- Noel