Module ocl_core::types::abs

Abstract data type wrappers.

Reference

The following table describes abstract data types supported by OpenCL (from SDK):

• cl_platform_id: The ID for a platform.
• cl_device_id: The ID for a device.
• cl_context: A context.
• cl_command_queue: A command queue.
• cl_mem: A memory object.
• cl_program: A program.
• cl_kernel: A kernel.
• cl_event: An event.
• cl_sampler: A sampler.

The following new derived wrappers are also included in this module:

• cl_events: A list of events.

Who cares. Why bother?

These types ensure as best they can that stored pointers to any of the above objects will be valid until that pointer is dropped by the Rust runtime (which obviously is not a 100% guarantee).

What this means is that you can share, clone, store, and throw away these types, and any types that contain them, among multiple threads, for as long as you'd like, with an insignificant amount of overhead, without having to worry about the dangers of dereferencing those types later on. As good as the OpenCL library generally is about this, it fails in many cases to provide complete protection against segfaults due to dereferencing old pointers particularly on certain ahem platforms.

Structs

CommandQueue	cl_command_queue
Context	cl_context
DeviceId	cl_device_id
Event	cl_event
EventList	List of cl_events.
EventRefWrapper	Wrapper used by EventList to send event pointers to core functions cheaply.
Kernel	cl_kernel
Mem	cl_mem
PlatformId	cl_platform_id
Program	cl_program
Sampler	cl_sampler

Traits

ClDeviceIdPtr	Types with a reference to a raw device_id pointer.
ClEventPtrNew	Types with a mutable pointer to a new, null raw event pointer.
ClEventRef	Types with a reference to a raw event pointer.
ClPlatformIdPtr	Types with a reference to a raw platform_id pointer.
ClVersions	Types with a fixed set of associated devices and an associated platform.
ClWaitList	Types with a reference to a raw event array and an associated element count.