Features of index sections

Table of Contents

• Negative global and local sizes
• Custom strides
  • Custom stride in x
  • Custom stride in x and y

Negative global and local sizes

Using negative sizes inverts the order of indices in the respective dimension. The following example illustrate this. The code for the examples can be found in idxsection_examples.c.

Custom strides

With some limitations you can define index sections with custom strides. This is achieved by introducing additional dimensions (see following examples).

Custom stride in x

    Xt_idxlist idxsection;

    Xt_int start = 0;
    int num_dimensions = 3;
    Xt_int global_size[3] = {5,5,2};
    int local_size [3] = {3,4,1};
    Xt_int local_start[3] = {2,0,1};

    // create index section

    idxsection = xt_idxsection_new(start, num_dimensions, global_size,
                                   local_size, local_start);

Custom stride in x and y

    Xt_idxlist idxsection;

    Xt_int start = 0;
    int num_dimensions = 4;
    Xt_int global_size[4] = {3,2,5,2};
    int local_size [4] = {3,1,4,1};
    Xt_int local_start[4] = {0,1,1,0};

    // create index section

    idxsection = xt_idxsection_new(start, num_dimensions, global_size,
                                   local_size, local_start);