Re: RFS: viennacl
On Thu 11 Aug 2011 01:02:18 PM CEST, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> [...]
>>> I've only got one concern left: all of the tests fail with
>>>
>>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'viennacl::ocl::unknown_error'
>>>
> [...]
>>
>> What do you have in mind about the diagnostics? I could think of first
>> checking whether the GPU supports OpenCL and only then run the tests.
>> Otherwise it would print a message. I'll talk to upstream and see
>> whether they have a suggestion on how to detect GPU programming support
>> a priori.
>>
>
> Detecting missing OpenCL support and not running the tests is probably the ideal
> solution. When speaking of diagnostics, however, I primarily thought of some
> specific error message that clearly tells that the test failed because of
> missing hardware support - "unknown_error" doesn't sound like such a specific
> error.
>
> Thanks a lot for your work,
> Michael
Defining VIENNACL_DEBUG_ALL should print some more info about where the
error occurred (see viennacl/ocl/error.hpp).
Michael
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