What's the 'right' way to implement a 32-bit memset for CUDA?

Question

CUDA has the API call

cudaError_t cudaMemset (void *devPtr, int value, size_t count)

which fills a buffer with a single-byte value. I want to f

Answer 1

Based on talonmies' answer, it seems a reasonable (though ugly) approach would be:

#include 
inline cudaError_t cudaMemsetTyped(void *devPtr, T value, size_t count);

#define INSTANTIATE_CUDA_MEMSET_TYPED(_nbits) \
inline cudaError_t cudaMemsetTyped(void *devPtr, int ## _nbits ## _t value, size_t count) { \
    cuMemsetD ## _nbits( reinterpret_cast(devPtr), value, count); \
} \
inline cudaError_t cudaMemsetTyped(void *devPtr, uint ## _nbits ## _t value, size_t count) { \
    cuMemsetD ## _nbits( reinterpret_cast(devPtr), reinterpret_cast(value), count); \
} \

INSTANTIATE_CUDA_MEMSET_TYPED(8)
INSTANTIATE_CUDA_MEMSET_TYPED(16)
INSTANTIATE_CUD_AMEMSET_TYPED(32)

#undef INSTANTIATE_CUDA_MEMSET_TYPED(_nbits)

inline cudaError_t cudaMemsetTyped(void *devPtr, float value, size_t count) {
    cuMemsetD32( reinterpret_cast(devPtr), reinterpret_cast(value), count);
}

(no cuMemset64 it seems, so no double either)