Storage-class Qualifiers

The typedef, extern and static storage-class specifiers.

typedef extern static

Notes

The typedef, extern, and static storage-class specifiers are supported. The auto and register storage-class specifiers are not supported.

The extern storage-class specifier can only be used for functions (kernel and non-kernel functions) and global variables declared in program scope or variables declared inside a function (kernel and non-kernel functions) The static storage-class specifier can only be used for non-kernel functions and global variables declared in program scope and variables inside a function declared in the global or constant address space.

Example

extern constant float4 noise_table[256]; static constant float4 color_table[256]; extern kernel void my_foo(image2d_t img); extern void my_bar(global float *a); kernel void my_func(image2d_t img, global float *a) { extern constant float4 a; static constant float4 b = (float4)(1.0f); // OK. static float c; // Error: No implicit address space global int hurl; // Error: Must be static ... my_foo(img); ... my_bar(a); ... while (1) { static global int inside; // OK. ... } ... }

Specification

OpenCL Specification

Also see

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