***_SAFE_CALL ? Function of SAFE_CALL functions

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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I noticed in several code examples (convolutionFFT2D), lot’s of CUDA functions are wrapped with CUDA_SAFE_CALL, CUT_SAFE_CALL and CUFFT_SAFE_CALL. The code segments in the manual pages make no mention of these wrappers (for example, the CUFFT code examples don’t wrap the malloc or cufftExec calls). I assume they have to do with synchronization, but I might be mistaken. What are these wrappers for and when can I avoid/not use them?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Just saw the same question in the ‘general’ area answered. It related to getting a return error code.