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5.5.5.2. Declaring the Pipe Handle
To read from and write to a pipe, the kernel must pass the pipe variable to each of the corresponding API call.
The <type> of the pipe may be any OpenCL™ built-in scalar or vector data type with a scalar size of 1024 bits or less. It may also be any user-defined type that is comprised of scalar or vector data type with a scalar size of 1024 bits or less.
Consider the following pipe handle declarations:
__kernel void first (pipe int c)
__kernel void second (write_only pipe int c)
The first example declares a read-only pipe handle of type int in the kernel first. The second example declares a write-only pipe in the kernel second. The kernel first may only read from pipe c, and the kernel second may only write to pipe c.
In an Intel® OpenCL system, only one kernel may read to a pipe. Similarly, only one kernel may write to a pipe. If a non-I/O pipe does not have at least one corresponding reading operation and one writing operation, the offline compiler issues an error.
For more information in the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ I/O pipe implementation, refer to Implementing I/O Pipes Using the io Attribute.