Does CUDA support recursion?
It does on NVIDIA hardware supporting compute capability 2.0 and CUDA 3.1:
New language features added to CUDA C / C++ include:
Support for function pointers and recursion make it easier to port many existing algorithms to Fermi GPUs
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_3_1_downloads.html
Function pointers: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/sdk/website/CUDA_Advanced_Topics.html#FunctionPointers
Recursion: I can't find a code sample on NVIDIA's website, but on the forum someone post this:
__device__ int fact(int f)
{
if (f == 0)
return 1;
else
return f * fact(f - 1);
}