Dynamic Memory Allocation inside kernel Can we have a cudaMalloc((void**)&var, size) in our ke

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Hi,

I have a piece of CUDA code, in which cudaMalloc((void**)&var,size) is inside the kernel on the GPU. This is useful for allocating memory on the GPU dynamically inside the kernel. Is it allowed?

Thanks in advance!

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No it is not. And if you had actually tried compile your code for a device, you would know this, because nvcc would refuse to compile it.