[vtk-developers] vtkAtomic vs std::atomic, can we change yet?

[Berk Geveci]

I would vote for dropping vtkAtomic and switching to std::atomic. Assuming
that the functionality of std::atomic is a superset of vtkAtomic's

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Robert Maynard <robert.maynard at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Are you asking about replacing just the
> Core/SMP/Sequential/vtkAtomic.cxx implementation or are you also
> interested in removing all the per SMP implementations?
>
> Using http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support we can see
> that std::atomic is fully supported across the range of compilers we
> need to support, so a conversion over to std::atomic would be allowed.
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Now that C++11 is required in VTK, could vtkAtomic switch to using
> std::atomic instead of the current 3 implementations (gcc atomics, Apple
> atomics, or Windows atomics)?  Or are our minimum required environments not
> ready for that?
> >
> > I ask because the APIs currently used in the macOS case are deprecated,
> and thus it would be best to stop using them...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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