Copying data to constant memory failed at sm_20

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Several posts in this forum or stackoverflow described a similar but not the same problem that I have come across. I am programming on a Tesla C2050, and the problem arises when I try to copy data to constant memory space using cudaMemcpyToSymbol. The syntax comes from CUDA API REFERENCE MANUAL. Here’s my code:

In Main.cu:

int main()

{

   ...

   double thickness=1.5;

   HandleDeviceError(cudaMemcpyToSymbol("thickness_device", &thickness, sizeof(double), 0, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice));

   ...

   return 0;

}

In Kernel.cu:

__constant__ double thickness_device;

When the program is executed with compute_10, sm_10, no error occurs, but the data thickness is somehow NOT copied to thickness_device at all. When it is executed with compute_20, sm_20, an error messange is thrown: invalid device symbol.

Could anyone help me with this problem? I appreciate any help!

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Does it work if you move the cudaMemcpyToSymbol() call to Kernel.cu, i.e. to the same file where the symbol is declared?

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