CLRELEASECONTEXT(3clc)

💅 CLRELEASECONTEXT 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the OpenCL Manual — today we're doing clReleaseContext, and honestly? it's giving "let it go" but make it refcounting. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

clReleaseContext — decrement the context reference count. that's it. that's the whole job. she's simple, she's iconic, she's literally one line of C:

cl_int clReleaseContext(cl_context context);

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• context — the context you're releasing. say bye to her. 🫶

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🌸 NOTES 🌸

okay so here's the tea ☕ — once the context reference count hits zero, and all the objects attached to context (think memory objects, command-queues, all her little friends) are released, the context is deleted. no cap, that's when she actually dips. ✨

😭 ERRORS 😭

returns CL_SUCCESS if the function executed successfully. otherwise it hands you one of these bad boys:

• CL_INVALID_CONTEXT — if context is not a valid OpenCL context. 💀
• CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES — if there's a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL implementation on the device.
• CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY — if there's a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL implementation on the host.

👑 SPECIFICATION 👑

OpenCL Specification[1] ⭐

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

clCreateContext(3clc), clCreateContextFromType(3clc), clGetContextInfo(3clc), clRetainContext(3clc), clGetContextInfo(3clc) — yes, clGetContextInfo is listed twice, and honestly? main character energy. iykyk. 💅

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

The Khronos Group 🫶

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2007-2011 The Khronos Group Inc.

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🍓 NOTES 🍓

1. OpenCL Specification — page 57, section 4.4 - Contexts 📖

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 go forth and release your contexts responsibly. remember: refcount to zero, then she's gone. periodt. ✨

the Khronos Group wrote this one, dated 01/14/2021, and it lives under the name CLRELEASECONTEXT(3clc). slay. 🎀🦋💅