The GPU has much tighter requirements for handling IO functions.
Previously we attempted to define the GPU as one of the platform files.
Using a common interface allowed us to easily define these functions
without much extra work. However, it became more clear that this was a
poor fit for the GPU. The file interface uses function pointers, which
prevented inlining and caused bad perfromance and resource usage on the
GPU. Further, using an actual FILE type rather than referring to it as
a host stub prevented us from usin files coming from the host on the GPU
device.
After talking with @sivachandra, the approach now is to simply define
GPU specific versions of the functions we intend to support. Also, we
are ignoring errno for the time being as it is unlikely we will ever
care about supporting it fully.
I suppose you want to add these back in a future patch?