Answer: What is the canonical way to check for errors using the CUDA runtime API?

answer re: What is the canonical way to check for errors using the CUDA runtime API?

Dec 26 '12

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Probably the best way to check for errors in runtime API code is to define an assert style handler function and wrapper macro like this:

#define gpuErrchk(ans) { gpuAssert((ans), __FILE__, __LINE__); }
inline void gpuAssert(cudaError_t code, const char *file, int line, bool abort=true)
{
   if (code != cudaSuccess) 
   {
      fprintf(stderr,"GPUassert:

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