Accept static sizes as keyword arguments

[maleadt]

Kernel closures support passing ndrange and workgroupsize as keyword arguments:

KernelAbstractions.jl/src/KernelAbstractions.jl

Line 661 in 9741962

(kernel::Kernel{<:NewBackend})(args...; ndrange=nothing, workgroupsize=nothing)

The kernel function itself probably should too, while it currently only accepts positional versions of these arguments (used to construct static sizes):

KernelAbstractions.jl/src/macros.jl

Lines 42 to 44 in 9741962

	function $name(dev::Dev, sz::S, range::NDRange) where {Dev, S <: $_Size, NDRange <: $_Size}
	return $construct(dev, sz, range, $gpu_name)
	end

IMO this makes the code more readable.

[Komal0103]

Hello @maleadt . This might be a novice question, but here we go. I tried solving this by adding the following

function $name(dev::Dev, sz::Union{S, Nothing}=$nothing, range::Union{NDRange, Nothing}=nothing) where {S <: $_Size, NDRange <: $_Size, Dev}
                return $construct(dev, sz, range, $gpu_name)
end

I keep getting the same error.
ERROR: Method overwriting is not permitted during Module precompilation. Use __precompile__(false) to opt-out of precompilation.

I tried searching through a lot of resources, but couldn't find any working solutions. I would appreciate any help to understand this problem.
Thank you in advance!

[maleadt]

Method overwriting is not permitted during Module precompilation.

Are you defining those methods from the REPL? You have to dev the package and edit its sources.

There's several topics on this error on Discourse, so I'd recommend reading those for some more insights.