On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:28:20 -0400, Ian Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm trying to pass a structure to PyOpenCL (using the struct module and the
> pack routine) but everytime i try to pass it as an arguement I get invalid
> arg size error.
> 
> I've coded up an example which fails in this way
> https://github.com/enjalot/adventures_in_opencl/blob/master/experiments/structs/structs.py
> 
> what am I missing?

Two issues:

- __constant refers to constant memory, AFAIK--which is a special type of
memory that I am not sure you mean.

- I imagine you don't want to pass a pointer to your struct type, but
  the struct itself. (i.e. remove the '*')

> also, the struct in this example is 16bytes on most machines, what if i just
> do "ffi" (12 bytes), do i need to pad it on the python side? I was a bit
> confused about the struct module documentation on alignment

Not sure--struct.calcsize() should tell you, though.

Andreas

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