dcompute issues?

[Bruce Carneal]

On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 19:11:28 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 February 2021 at 19:59:45 UTC, Bruce Carneal 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 10 February 2021 at 17:54:44 UTC, kinke wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 10 February 2021 at 02:44:37 UTC, Bruce Carneal 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Please try to reduce it and file an issue. You can also use a 
>>> CI build with enabled assertions from 
>>> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/CI, which 
>>> might give a usable hint.
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Thanks, you're welcome.
>>
>> The ldc2-4bee4e6f-linux-x86_64 CI compiler that you pointed me 
>> to works, no segv during compilation and the saxpy results 
>> coming back from the GPU check out.  For reference, I'm using 
>> a cuda-620 target and running on a cuda-750 card.
>>
>> You've got me up and running on dcompute.  Thanks!  I'm 
>> *really* happy that I might not have to go back to C++/CUDA.
>
> Nice! D compute looks interesting. Are/were there any patches 
> for the problem(s) you encountered?

No patches.  Once I installed the CI compiler the saxpy demo/test 
"just worked".

There are some, documented, "TODOs" in the very readable dcompute 
source code but no show stoppers so far.  derelict CUDA/CL are 
also available if you need them.