Adding support in the hipify-perl tool for the HIP_SYMBOL macro, which is required for hip API calls involving a device symbol. Added more explicit mention of the HIP_SYMBOL macro in the porting guide.

[ROCm/hip commit: 6531262126]
2018-12-19 12:21:02 -05:00
parent 3417a3492e
commit 4d7b8ce2d6
2 changed files with 6 additions and 3 deletions
@@ -418,6 +418,8 @@ HIP support for hipMemcpyToSymbol is complete.  This feature allows a kernel
 to define a device-side data symbol which can be accessed on the host side.  The symbol
 can be in __constant or device space.

+Note that the symbol name needs to be encased in the HIP_SYMBOL macro, as shown in the code example below. This also applies to hipMemcpyFromSymbol, hipGetSymbolAddress, and hipGetSymbolSize.
+
 For example:

 Device Code: