Cuda Error: fail to do new int[] in a kernel function

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The fragment below runs into error, and the problem reported by cuda-memcheck is that the variable cand is NULL and can not copy content to it. This error does not occur in every thread, but there does exist some threads which report this error.

__global__ void join_kernel(int* d_candidate...)
{
    int* cand = NULL;
    cand = new int[num];
    memcpy(cand, d_candidate, sizeof(int)*num);
}
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in-kernel new allocates out of a limited heap.
when you exhaust that heap, the returned pointer is NULL

read the relevant section of the programming guide

[url]Programming Guide :: CUDA Toolkit Documentation