length

Vector length.

float length ( floatn  p)
double length ( doublen  p)

half length (gentype p) // if half extension enabled

Description

Returns the length of vector p, i.e., the square root of (p.x2 + p.y2 + ...)

Notes

Built-in geometric functions operate component-wise. The description is per-component. floatn is float, float2, float3, or float4 and doublen is double, double2, double3, or double4. The built-in geometric functions are implemented using the round to nearest even rounding mode.

The geometric functions can be implemented using contractions such as mad or fma.

If extended with cl_khr_fp16, generic type name gentype may indicate half and half{2|3|4} as arguments.

Specification

OpenCL Specification

Also see

Geometric Functions

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