create_error_handler#

Creates an error handler for VM functions that support computational error handling.

Syntax

Buffer API:

namespace oneapi::mkl::vm {

oneapi::mkl::vm::error_handler<T> create_error_handler(
    sycl::buffer<oneapi::mkl::vm::status, 1> & status_array,
    int64_t length = 1,
    oneapi::mkl::vm::status status = oneapi::mkl::vm::status::not_defined,
    T fixup = {},
    bool copysign = false);

} // namespace oneapi::mkl::vm

USM API:

namespace oneapi::mkl::vm {

oneapi::mkl::vm::error_handler<T> create_error_handler(
    oneapi::mkl::vm::status* status_array,
    int64_t length = 1,
    oneapi::mkl::vm::status status = oneapi::mkl::vm::status::not_defined,
    T fixup = {},
    bool copysign = false);

} // namespace oneapi::mkl::vm

create_error_handler supports the following precisions.

T
`float`
`double`
`std::complex<float>`
`std::complex<double>`

Description

create_error_handler creates an computational error handler to be passed to VM functions that support computational error handling.

A VM computational error handler supports three modes:

Single status mode: all computational errors that happened during the execution of a function are being written into one single status variable.

After the execution, the single value is either un-changed if no errors happened or contains bitwise-OR of initial value and non-success status codes occurred during computation.

To enable this mode, status_array must point to any status-type array or buffer of 1 or more elements and length must be 1.
Multiple status mode: each non-successful status code is saved in status_array at the same index as the argument causing the non-success status code.

Success status codes are not written to status_array. This means the array needs to be allocated and initialized before function execution.

To enable this mode, status_array must have at least the same length as the argument and result vectors, and length must be set to this length.
Fixup mode: for all arguments that caused a specific error status, results are overwritten by a user-defined value.

To enable this mode, the target status and fixup values must be set. The fixup value is written to results for each argument for which calculation resulted in the status status code.

To fix multiple error status codes, status can be provided with bitwise-OR of status codes.

If copysign is set to true then the sign of fixup is set to the same sign as the argument that caused the status code – a suitable option for symmetric math functions.

The following table lists the possible computational status code values.

Status code	Description
Successful Execution
`oneapi::mkl::vm::status::success`	VM function execution completed successfully
`oneapi::mkl::vm::status::not_defined`	VM status not defined
Warnings
`oneapi::mkl::vm::status::accuracy_warning`	VM function execution completed successfully in a different accuracy mode
Computational Errors
`oneapi::mkl::vm::status::errdom`	Values are out of a range of definition producing invalid (QNaN) result
`oneapi::mkl::vm::status::sing`	Values cause divide-by-zero (singularity) computational errors and produce and invalid (QNaN or Inf) result
`oneapi::mkl::vm::status::overflow`	An overflow happened during the calculation process
`oneapi::mkl::vm::status::underflow`	An underflow happened during the calculation process

Notes:

status_array must be allocated and initialized before calling VM functions in multiple status error handling mode.

The array should be large enough to contain n status codes, where n is the same as the input/output vector size for the VM function.
If no arguments are passed to create_error_handler, then an empty object is created with all three error handling modes disabled.

In this case, the VM math functions set the global status code only.

Input Parameters

status_array: Array to store status codes (should be a buffer for buffer API).
length: Length of the errarray. This is an optional argument, default value is 1.
status_code: Status code to match and fix the results. This is an optional argument, default value is oneapi::mkl::vm::status::not_defined.
fixup: Fixup value for results. This is an optional argument, default value is 0.0.
copysign: Flag for setting the fixup value’s sign the same as the argument’s. This is an optional argument, default value false.

Output Parameters

return value: Specifies the error handler object to be created.

Parent topic: VM Service Functions