HIP(1)

💖 HIP 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to hipify-perl — the hipify-perl manual, section 1 (that's HIP(1) for the citation girlies 👑). buckle up, we're translating CUDA into HIP today and it's gonna be iconic ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

HIP — a CUDA to HIP source translator. yes, literally that. it takes your CUDA and makes it portable HIP C++. the glow-up of the century fr fr 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the way that hipify-perl works is: it's a tool to translate CUDA source code into portable HIP C++. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 🔥

here's the usage, and bestie, memorize it:

hipify-perl [OPTIONS] INPUT_FILE

and these are the OPTIONS, every single one, don't skip 🎀

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -cuda-kernel-execution-syntax — keep CUDA kernel launch syntax. this is the default, so it's what you get unless you say otherwise 💖
• -examine — a combo deal, it's -no-output and -print-stats in one ✨
• -exclude-dirs=s — exclude directories (s is where you put 'em) 🙈
• -exclude-files=s — exclude files, same deal 🎀
• -experimental — enable the HIPIFY APIs that are only experimentally supported. thrilled for them, but experimental, so you've been warned 🫶
• -help — display the available options
• -hip-kernel-execution-syntax — transform CUDA kernel launch syntax into a regular HIP function call. and bestie, note this: it overrides "--cuda-kernel-execution-syntax" 💅
• -inplace — it backs up your input file into a .prehip file, then modifies the input file inplace. emphasis on backup, because she's rewriting your actual file 🌸
• -miopen — translates cuDNN to MIOpen instead of hipDNN, where it is possible 🦋
• -no-output — don't write any translated output to stdout. silent treatment, but make it productive 💀
• -o=s — output filename 🌈
• -print-stats — print translation statistics. we LOVE a receipts moment 📊✨
• -quiet-warnings — don't print warnings on unknown CUDA identifiers 🤫
• -roc — translate to roc instead of hip, where it is possible 🎀
• -version — the supported HIP version 👑
• -whitelist=s — whitelist of identifiers 💜

bestie PSA: -exclude-dirs=s, -exclude-files=s, -o=s and -whitelist=s all take a value s, so don't just yell the flag at it and walk away 🫶

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and that's the whole page, main character energy from top to bottom 💅✨

sign-off: this little icon is hipify-perl in section HIP(1), dated September 2026 — go slay your translation, bestie, you've got this 🎀💖🦋