Re: [Boost-users] [proto] : Using proto with NVIDIA CUDA nvcc (redux)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [proto] : Using proto with NVIDIA CUDA nvcc (redux)
From: joel falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-03 02:34:10

On 02/11/10 23:39, Manjunath Kudlur wrote:
>> Seriously? I'm afraid I have no suggestions for you. How does anybody
>> use any third-party library on CUDA?
>>
>>      
> The short answer probably is, nobody does. The only libraries you can
> use from the device side of CUDA are those that you wrote yourself (so
> you would have the __device__ attributes on functions) or those that
> you have the source code for and painstakingly put __device__
> attributes everywhere.
>    
Yup and this is a MAJOR PITA :/
I tried to come up with a PP trick but nothing ends up working.
I wish it was the other way around: default to be callable on device
and specify the host only functions.