I am facing some compilation errors when I compile the given cuda-extension tutorial code from here:

  
      
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CUDA version : 9.0
gcc version : 6.4.0
Pytorch version : 1.0.0.dev20181008 / 0.5.0a0+ab6afc2
Compilation log:

  
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    https://gist.github.com/InnovArul/db9ac86f8c5f7bc97fea348d3542a105 12
cuda-extension-pytorch1.0-compile.sh
running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
creating lltm_cuda.egg-info
writing lltm_cuda.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to lltm_cuda.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to lltm_cuda.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing manifest file 'lltm_cuda.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest file 'lltm_cuda.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'lltm_cuda.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
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The notable errors are:
/usr/local/cuda-9.0/bin/nvcc -I/home/arul/anaconda3/envs/pytorch-nightly/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/lib/include -I/home/arul/anaconda3/envs/pytorch-nightly/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/lib/include/torch/csrc/api/include -I/home/arul/anaconda3/envs/pytorch-nightly/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/lib/include/TH -I/home/arul/anaconda3/envs/pytorch-nightly/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/lib/include/THC -I/usr/local/cuda-9.0/include -I/home/arul/cuda/include -I/home/arul/anaconda3/envs/pytorch-nightly/include/python3.6m -c lltm_cuda_kernel.cu -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/lltm_cuda_kernel.o -D__CUDA_NO_HALF_OPERATORS__ -D__CUDA_NO_HALF_CONVERSIONS__ -D__CUDA_NO_HALF2_OPERATORS__ --compiler-options '-fPIC' -DTORCH_API_INCLUDE_EXTENSION_H -DTORCH_EXTENSION_NAME=lltm_cuda -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 -std=c++11
/usr/include/c++/6/tuple: In instantiation of ‘static constexpr bool std::_TC<<anonymous>, _Elements>::_MoveConstructibleTuple() [with _UElements = {std::tuple<at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>}; bool <anonymous> = true; _Elements = {at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor}]’:
/usr/include/c++/6/tuple:626:248:   required by substitution of ‘template<class ... _UElements, typename std::enable_if<(((std::_TC<(sizeof... (_UElements) == 1), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_NotSameTuple<_UElements ...>() && std::_TC<(1ul == sizeof... (_UElements)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_MoveConstructibleTuple<_UElements ...>()) && std::_TC<(1ul == sizeof... (_UElements)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_ImplicitlyMoveConvertibleTuple<_UElements ...>()) && (3ul >= 1)), bool>::type <anonymous> > constexpr std::tuple< <template-parameter-1-1> >::tuple(_UElements&& ...) [with _UElements = {std::tuple<at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>}; typename std::enable_if<(((std::_TC<(sizeof... (_UElements) == 1), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_NotSameTuple<_UElements ...>() && std::_TC<(1ul == sizeof... (_UElements)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_MoveConstructibleTuple<_UElements ...>()) && std::_TC<(1ul == sizeof... (_UElements)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_ImplicitlyMoveConvertibleTuple<_UElements ...>()) && (3ul >= 1)), bool>::type <anonymous> = <missing>]’
/home/arul/anaconda3/envs/pytorch-nightly/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/lib/include/ATen/core/TensorMethods.h:456:36:   required from here
/usr/include/c++/6/tuple:483:67: error: mismatched argument pack lengths while expanding ‘std::is_constructible<_Elements, _UElements&&>’
       return __and_<is_constructible<_Elements, _UElements&&>...>::value;
                                                                   ^~~~~
/usr/include/c++/6/tuple:484:1: error: body of constexpr function ‘static constexpr bool std::_TC<<anonymous>, _Elements>::_MoveConstructibleTuple() [with _UElements = {std::tuple<at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>}; bool <anonymous> = true; _Elements = {at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor}]’ not a return-statement
     }

/usr/include/c++/6/tuple: In instantiation of ‘static constexpr bool std::_TC<<anonymous>, _Elements>::_NonNestedTuple() [with _SrcTuple = const std::tuple<at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>&; bool <anonymous> = true; _Elements = {at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor}]’:
/usr/include/c++/6/tuple:662:419:   required by substitution of ‘template<class ... _UElements, class _Dummy, typename std::enable_if<((std::_TC<(1ul == sizeof... (_UElements)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_ConstructibleTuple<_UElements ...>() && std::_TC<(1ul == sizeof... (_UElements)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_ImplicitlyConvertibleTuple<_UElements ...>()) && std::_TC<(std::is_same<_Dummy, void>::value && (1ul == 1)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_NonNestedTuple<const tuple<_Elements ...>&>()), bool>::type <anonymous> > constexpr std::tuple< <template-parameter-1-1> >::tuple(const std::tuple<_Args1 ...>&) [with _UElements = {at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor}; _Dummy = void; typename std::enable_if<((std::_TC<(1ul == sizeof... (_UElements)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_ConstructibleTuple<_UElements ...>() && std::_TC<(1ul == sizeof... (_UElements)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_ImplicitlyConvertibleTuple<_UElements ...>()) && std::_TC<(std::is_same<_Dummy, void>::value && (1ul == 1)), at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>::_NonNestedTuple<const tuple<_Elements ...>&>()), bool>::type <anonymous> = <missing>]’
/home/arul/anaconda3/envs/pytorch-nightly/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/lib/include/ATen/core/TensorMethods.h:456:36:   required from here
/usr/include/c++/6/tuple:495:244: error: wrong number of template arguments (4, should be 2)
       return  __and_<__not_<is_same<tuple<_Elements...>,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ^    
/usr/include/c++/6/type_traits:1558:8: note: provided for ‘template<class _From, class _To> struct std::is_convertible’
     struct is_convertible
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/c++/6/tuple:502:1: error: body of constexpr function ‘static constexpr bool std::_TC<<anonymous>, _Elements>::_NonNestedTuple() [with _SrcTuple = const std::tuple<at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor>&; bool <anonymous> = true; _Elements = {at::Tensor, at::Tensor, at::Tensor}]’ not a return-statement
     }
 ^

The code is taken from the given pytorch cpp extension github repo as it is.
I had to make a change to replace fmax() to fmaxf() (in this line 11) for the code to compile though.