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/*! \defgroup API_Insert_Task Insert_Task

\fn int starpu_insert_task(struct starpu_codelet *cl, ...)
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
Create and submit a task corresponding to \p cl with the
following arguments. The argument list must be zero-terminated.

The arguments following the codelets can be of the following types:
<ul>
<li> ::STARPU_R, ::STARPU_W, ::STARPU_RW, ::STARPU_SCRATCH,
::STARPU_REDUX an access mode followed by a data handle;
<li> ::STARPU_DATA_ARRAY followed by an array of data handles and its
number of elements;
<li> the specific values ::STARPU_VALUE, ::STARPU_CALLBACK,
::STARPU_CALLBACK_ARG, ::STARPU_CALLBACK_WITH_ARG, ::STARPU_PRIORITY,
::STARPU_TAG, ::STARPU_FLOPS, ::STARPU_SCHED_CTX followed by the
appropriated objects as defined elsewhere.
</ul>

When using ::STARPU_DATA_ARRAY, the access mode of the data handles is
not defined.

Parameters to be passed to the codelet implementation are defined
through the type ::STARPU_VALUE. The function
starpu_codelet_unpack_args() must be called within the codelet
implementation to retrieve them.

\def STARPU_VALUE
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
this macro is used when calling starpu_insert_task(), and must
be followed by a pointer to a constant value and the size of the
constant

\def STARPU_CALLBACK
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
this macro is used when calling starpu_insert_task(), and must
be followed by a pointer to a callback function

\def STARPU_CALLBACK_WITH_ARG
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
this macro is used when calling starpu_insert_task(), and must
be followed by two pointers: one to a callback function, and the other
to be given as an argument to the callback function; this is
equivalent to using both ::STARPU_CALLBACK and
::STARPU_CALLBACK_WITH_ARG.

\def STARPU_CALLBACK_ARG
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
this macro is used when calling starpu_insert_task(), and must
be followed by a pointer to be given as an argument to the callback
function

\def STARPU_PRIORITY
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
this macro is used when calling starpu_insert_task(), and must
be followed by a integer defining a priority level

\def STARPU_DATA_ARRAY
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
TODO

\def STARPU_TAG
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
this macro is used when calling starpu_insert_task(), and must be followed by a tag.

\def STARPU_FLOPS
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
this macro is used when calling starpu_insert_task(), and must
be followed by an amount of floating point operations, as a double.
Users <b>MUST</b> explicitly cast into double, otherwise parameter
passing will not work.

\def STARPU_SCHED_CTX
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
this macro is used when calling starpu_insert_task(), and must
be followed by the id of the scheduling context to which we want to
submit the task.

\fn void starpu_codelet_pack_args(void **arg_buffer, size_t *arg_buffer_size, ...)
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
Pack arguments of type ::STARPU_VALUE into a buffer which can be
given to a codelet and later unpacked with the function
starpu_codelet_unpack_args().

\fn void starpu_codelet_unpack_args(void *cl_arg, ...)
\ingroup API_Insert_Task
Retrieve the arguments of type ::STARPU_VALUE associated to a
task automatically created using the function starpu_insert_task().

*/
