[PyCUDA] casting arguments to memset to unsigned int ?

[Andreas Klöckner]

On Dienstag 30 Juni 2009, Michael Rule wrote:
> Ok, fixed that ( needed to use "uint" not "uint32". Numpy basic types
> don't seem to be anywhere near the surface of Google and are hard to
> find ). I now have another related question :
>
> the documentation for the pycuda prepare function states
> "setting up the argument types as arg_types. arg_types is expected to
> be an iterable containing type characters understood by the struct
> module or numpy.dtype objects."
>
> Since I am still baffled by numpy datatypes ( which definitely don't
> seem to include pointers), how do I tell CUDA that "this is a pointer
> to a float" and "this is a pointer to an integer" using this function
> ?

numpy.intp = pointer-sized integer. There's no checking of the pointed-to type 
as yet.

Would you mind adding FAQ items for these two?
http://wiki.tiker.net/PyCuda/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

Andreas
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