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Old 3rd August 2010, 11:26   #21  |  Link
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Originally Posted by Reimar View Post
Happen to have a reference at hand? I've only used CUDA, but my impression was that you rarely really need completely general pointers, since you have to copy the data to the GPU anyway and transforming it so far that e.g. everything ends up in a single buffer is not really a problem.
See here:
http://developer.download.nvidia.com...tart_Guide.pdf

Search for "Pointer Traversal" and you'll find:
...pointers must be converted to be relative to the buffer base pointer and only refer to data within the buffer itself (no pointers between OpenCL buffers are allowed)
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