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.