Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Pro Edition: Best Practices Guide

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Date 10/04/2021
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4.6. Maintaining Similar Structures for Vector Type Elements

If you update one element of a vector type, update all elements of the vector.

The following code example illustrates a scenario where you should update a vector element:

__kernel void update (__global const float4 * restrict in,
                      __global const float4 * restrict out)
{
	  size_t gid = get_global_id(0);

	  out[gid].x = process(in[gid].x);
	  out[gid].y = process(in[gid].y);
	  out[gid].z = process(in[gid].z);
	  out[gid].w = 0; //Update w even if that variable is not required.
}