Access Qualifiers

Access Qualifiers for image memory objects.

__read_only __write_only __read_write read_only write_only read_write

Description

Image objects specified as arguments to a kernel can be declared to be read-only, write-only or read-write. The __read_only (or read_only) and __write_only (or write_only) qualifiers must be used with image object arguments to declare if the image object is being read or written by a kernel. The __read_write (or read_write) qualifier must be used with image object arguments to declare if the image object is being both read and written by a kernel. The default qualifier is read_only.

In the following example

kernel void
foo (read_only image2d_t imageA, 
    write_only image2d_t imageB)
{
    ...
}

imageA is a read-only 2D image object, and imageB is a write-only 2D image object.

The sampler-less read image and write image built-ins can be used with image declared with the __read_write (or read_write) qualifier. Calls to built-ins that read from an image using a sampler for images declared with the __read_write (or read_write) qualifier will be a compilation error.

Pipe objects specified as arguments to a kernel can also use these access qualifiers. Refer to section 6.13.16 for a detailed description on how these access qualifiers can be used with pipes.

Notes

The __read_only, __write_only, __read_write, read_only, write_only and read_write names are reserved for use as access qualifiers and shall not be used otherwise.

Specification

OpenCL Specification

Also see

qualifiers, pipe functions

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