Question about global memory in SYCL guide

SYCL development
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I have tried to type in and run the program in the SYCL guide, section about memory: https://developer.codeplay.com/products/computecpp/ce/guides/sycl-guide/memory

However, it will not compile because of two things related to the global memory:

auto global_mem = buf.get_access<sycl::access::mode::read>();

First, given that we assign to it later, shouldn’t it be access mode read_write? This is easy to change.

Secondly, the compiler believes it’s a host buffer and therefore it will not accept references to it in the SYCL kernel. I have tried to find other accessor constructors and get methods, without success and would need some help here.

Regards

Mats

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Hi Mats, Thanks for spotting these. We’ll check the code and update it where needed.

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There was a change made at some point to the spec that makes accessors constructed without a handler host-only. If you add the handler to the arguments to the get_access function call, it should work as expected.