OTHERDATATYPES(3clc)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, this is Other_Data_Types — Other Built-in Data Types, from the OpenCL Manual, and it's literally the cheat sheet for all the extra lil data types OpenCL hands you beyond the basic scalars and vectors 💖

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the following types are the other data types OpenCL supports, and here's the whole rundown, no skips, no gatekeeping 🫶

• image2d_t — A 2D image. See individual imageFunctions(3clc) for more information. 🖼️
• image3d_t — A 3D image. See individual imageFunctions(3clc) for more information. 🧊
• image2d_array_t — A 2D image array. See individual imageFunctions(3clc) for more information. 📚
• image1d_t — A 1D image. See individual imageFunctions(3clc) for more information. ➖
• image1d_buffer_t — A 1D image created from a buffer object. See individual imageFunctions(3clc) for more information. 🧺
• image1d_array_t — A 1D image array. See individual imageFunctions(3clc) for more information. 🗂️
• sampler_t(3clc) — A sampler type. 🎀
• event_t — An event. This can be used to identify async copies from global to local memory and vice-versa. See individual asyncCopyFunctions(3clc) for more information. 🔥

NOTE: the image2d_t, image3d_t, image2d_array_t, image1d_t, image1d_buffer_t, image1d_array_t, and sampler_t types are only defined if the device supports images, i.e. CL_DEVICE_IMAGE_SUPPORT is CL_TRUE. See the table for param_name for clGetDeviceInfo(3clc) for details. 👀

and like, the C99 derived types (arrays, structs, union, function, and pointers), constructed from the built-in data types described in scalarDataTypes(3clc), vectorDataTypes(3clc), and otherDataTypes(3clc) are also supported with certain restrictions(3clc). yes really, all of that. periodt. ✨

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📜 SPECIFICATION 📜

OpenCL Specification[1]

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

macroLimits(3clc), scalarDataTypes(3clc), vectorDataTypes(3clc), reservedDataTypes(3clc), abstractDataTypes(3clc), enums(3clc),

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

The Khronos Group

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©️ COPYRIGHT ©️

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🗒️ NOTES 🗒️

1. OpenCL Specification — page 199, section 6.1.3 - Other Built-in Data Types

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 💅 this was brought to you by The Khronos Group, dated 01/14/2021, from the OpenCL Manual — go forth and image-t and event-t your little heart out 🌸🦋