[Beignet] Pointer load/store - obsolete documentation?

Song, Ruiling ruiling.song at intel.com
Sun Jun 12 07:43:38 UTC 2016



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beignet [mailto:beignet-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of
> Rebecca N. Palmer
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 5:40 AM
> To: beignet at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [Beignet] Pointer load/store - obsolete documentation?
> 
> The documentation says "an unsupported feature which is to store/load
> pointers to/from memory[...]We plan to fix it in next major release
> 1.1.0" (docs/Beignet.mdwn:216-219)
> 
> Given that 1.1.0 has now been released, and does appear to fix this
> (creating an array of pointers works in 1.1.2 but not in 1.0.3;
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/beignet/commit/?id=48e22ae4536fbf944f39ab13e
> 8f1133d3f5edcc3),
> should this note now be removed?

Yes, I agree with you. This can be removed. We have support normal usage of storing/loading pointers. Although it still has some limitation.
> 
> (This is the test case I used: would you like it making into a utest?)
I go through the case, it is very good. I am not sure do you have time to make it as a unit test?

Thanks!
Ruiling




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