How to get VS 2010 to recognize certain CUDA functions

You could create a dummy #include file of the following form:

#pragma once
#ifdef __INTELLISENSE__
void __syncthreads();
...
#endif

This should hide the fake prototypes from the CUDA and Visual C++ compilers, but still make them visible to IntelliSense.

Source for __INTELLISENSE__ macro: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/03/29/10146895.aspx

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