Chapter 11
OpenCL Extensions
Introduction
Similar to most programming languages and frameworks, the OpenCL specification provides support for optional extensions. They represent a small but important set of extended OpenCL capabilities. In this chapter, we discuss a number of these extensions that can provide programmers an extended set of tools to implement OpenCL applications.
Overview of Extension Mechanism
OpenCL defines three types of extensions:
• KHR extension: Formally ratified by the OpenCL working group and comes with a set of conformance tests that any application claiming to support the extension must have passed. All KHR extensions are included as part of the OpenCL specification. In general, the goal is to keep the set of KHR extensions ...
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