hipify-perl#
hipify-perl
is an autogenerated perl-based script that heavily uses regular expressions.
Advantages:
Ease of use
No checks for input source NVIDIA CUDA code for correctness required
No dependency on third party tools, including CUDA
Disadvantages:
Inability or difficulty in implementing the following constructs:
Macros expansion
Namespaces:
Redefinition of CUDA entities in user namespaces
Using directive
Templates (some cases)
Device or host function calls differentiation
Correct injection of header files
Parsing complicated argument lists
Usage#
perl hipify-perl square.cu > square.cu.hip
Building hipify-perl#
To generate hipify-perl
, run
hipify-clang --perl
You can choose to specify the output directory for the generated hipify-perl
file using --o-hipify-perl-dir
option.