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Add NVCC inability to compile .hip files notice and workaround
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James Xu committed Nov 20, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ its limitations, if any, compared with the equivalent CUDA API.
The kernel language features are documented in the
:doc:`/reference/cpp_language_extensions` page.

.. warning::
If you specify HIP_PLATFORM=NVIDIA with hipcc, you also need to pass ``-x cu``
to hipcc when compiling files with the ``.hip`` file extension. Otherwise,
nvcc will not recognize the ``.hip`` file extension and will fail with
``nvcc fatal : Don't know what to do with <file>.hip``.


Relation to other GPGPU frameworks
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