| Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): Nvidia PTX Variable Attributes |
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These variable attributes are supported by the Nvidia PTX back end:
shared
Use this attribute to place a variable in the .shared memory space.
This memory space is private to each cooperative thread array; only threads
within one thread block refer to the same instance of the variable.
The runtime does not initialize variables in this memory space.