C++ Libraries in OpenCL

Question

I was wondering if we can use c++ libraries to write programs in OpenCL. Can we use the boost library or STL or any other c++ library to write code in OpenCL OpenCL devices?? Will it work on OpenCL devices? Any other way to do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

No, you can't use any C++ libraries in OpenCL C. OpenCL C is based on C99 and has lots of additional restrictions. OpenCL does not support recursion, multi-dimensional arrays, dynamic memory allocation and many more C99/C++ features. See this list.