NAME

       clCreateSampler - Creates a sampler object.

       cl_sampler clCreateSampler(cl_context context, cl_bool normalized_coords,
                                  cl_addressing_mode addressing_mode, cl_filter_mode filter_mode,
                                  cl_int *errcode_ret);

PARAMETERS

        context
           Must be a valid OpenCL context.

        normalized_coords
           Determines if the image coordinates specified are normalized (if normalized_coords is
           CL_TRUE) or not (if normalized_coords is CL_FALSE).

        addressing_mode
           Specifies how out-of-range image coordinates are handled when reading from an image.
           This can be set to CL_ADDRESS_MIRRORED_REPEAT, CL_ADDRESS_REPEAT,
           CL_ADDRESS_CLAMP_TO_EDGE, CL_ADDRESS_CLAMP, and CL_ADDRESS_NONE.

        filter_mode
           Specifies the type of filter that must be applied when reading an image. This can be
           CL_FILTER_NEAREST or CL_FILTER_LINEAR.

        errcode_ret
           Returns an appropriate error code. If errcode_ret is NULL, no error code is returned.

NOTES

       A sampler object describes how to sample an image when the image is read in the kernel.
       The built-in functions to read from an image in a kernel take a sampler as an argument.
       The sampler arguments to the image read function can be sampler objects created using
       OpenCL functions and passed as argument values to the kernel or can be samplers declared
       inside a kernel. In this section we discuss how sampler objects are created using OpenCL
       functions.

       For more information about working with samplers, see sampler_t(3clc)

ERRORS

       Returns a valid non-zero sampler object and errcode_ret is set to CL_SUCCESS if the
       sampler object is created successfully. Otherwise, it returns a NULL value with one of the
       following error values returned in errcode_ret:

       ·   CL_INVALID_CONTEXT if context is not a valid context.

       ·   CL_INVALID_VALUE if addressing_mode, filter_mode, or normalized_coords or a
           combination of these argument values are not valid.

       ·   CL_INVALID_OPERATION if images are not supported by any device associated with context
           (i.e.  CL_DEVICE_IMAGE_SUPPORT specified in the table of OpenCL Device Queries for
           clGetDeviceInfo(3clc) is CL_FALSE).

       ·   CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES if there is a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL
           implementation on the device.

       ·   CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY if there is a failure to allocate resources required by the
           OpenCL implementation on the host.

SPECIFICATION

       OpenCL Specification[1]

SEE ALSO

       clRetainSampler(3clc), clReleaseSampler(3clc), clGetSamplerInfo(3clc),
       classDiagram(3clc)sampler_t(3clc)

AUTHORS

       The Khronos Group

COPYRIGHT

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NOTES

        1. OpenCL Specification
           page 128, section 5.5.1 - Creating Sampler Objects