Is driver version meant to be locale-sensitive

[Bruce_M_]

Hi

I develop a library that does autotuning of kernels in advance. I've discovered that the value of CL_DRIVER_VERSION is dependent on the current locale, which is problematic because I use the driver version as part of the key when looking up tuning parameters, and so an application running under a different locale will think that it is using a different driver version and needs re-tuning. For example, the CL_DRIVER_VERSION is 1.2.0.76921 in the C locale, but 1.2.0.76,921 in the en_GB.UTF-8 locale. This is on Linux.

Thanks

Bruce

[Yuri_K_Intel]

Hi, I couldn't reproduce it so far. I tried 'export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8'. Could you please provide additional details - OS version, necessary environment variables? Thanks, Yuri

[Bruce_M_]

I've attached a program that demonstrates the issue. I'm running it on Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit. The output of "locale" when I run it is

[plain]LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8

LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8

LC_COLLATE=C

LC_MONETARY=en_ZA.UTF-8

LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"

LC_PAPER=en_ZA.UTF-8

LC_NAME=en_ZA.UTF-8

LC_ADDRESS=en_ZA.UTF-8

LC_TELEPHONE=en_ZA.UTF-8

LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8

LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_ZA.UTF-8

LC_ALL=[/plain]

The output when I run it is

[plain]Device name:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Driver version: 1.2.0.76,921[/plain]

If I comment out the first line of main() (so that the program is not locale-aware), it outputs:

[plain]Device name:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Driver version: 1.2.0.76921[/plain]

i.e. no comma.

[Yuri_K_Intel]

Yes, now it's reproduced. I will submit a ticket for it Thanks, Yuri

[Yariv_A_Intel1]

This issue will be fixed in our next release.

Thanks, Yariv