The reason why we did not support shared libraries when CUDA compiles
were on is that virtual methods require a special linking step to pull
together all virtual methods that might be called. I other words, you
cannot call a virtual CUDA method defined inside a library. This
requirement goes away when virtuals are removed.
Also removed the necessity of using seprable compilation with cuda.
Again, this is only needed when a CUDA function is defined in one
translation unit and used in another. Now we can enforce that all
translation units define their own CUDA functions.
Also, suppress warnings in cuda/internal/ExecutionPolicy.h
This is where we call the thrust algorithms. There must be some loop
where it, on some code path, calls back a host function. This must be in
an execution path that never happens. The thrust version has its own
suppress, but that does not seem to actually suppress the warning (it
just means that the warning does not tell you where the actual call is).
Get around the problem by suppressing the warnings in VTK-m.
Co-authored-by: Kenneth Moreland <morelandkd@ornl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Vicente Adolfo Bolea Sanchez <vicente.bolea@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Vicente Adolfo Bolea Sanchez <vicente.bolea@kitware.com>
Deprecate `VirtualObjectHandle` and all other classes that are used to
implement objects with virtual methods in the execution environment.
Additionally, the code is updated so that if the
`VTKm_NO_DEPRECATED_VIRTUAL` flag is set none of the code is compiled at
all. This opens us up to opportunities that do not work with virtual
methods such as backends that do not support virtual methods and dynamic
libraries for CUDA.
As we remove more and more virtual methods from VTK-m, I expect several
users will be interested in completely removing them from the build for
several reasons.
1. They may be compiling for hardware that does not support virtual
methods.
2. They may need to compile for CUDA but need shared libraries.
3. It should go a bit faster.
To enable this, a CMake option named `VTKm_NO_DEPRECATED_VIRTUAL` is
added. It defaults to `OFF`. But when it is `ON`, none of the code that
both uses virtuals and is deprecated will be built.
Currently, only `ArrayHandleVirtual` is deprecated, so the rest of the
virtual classes will still be built. As we move forward, more will be
removed until all virtual method functionality is removed.
`assert` is supported on recent CUDA cards, but compiling it appears to be
very slow. By default, the `VTKM_ASSERT` macro has been disabled whenever
compiling for a CUDA device (i.e. when `__CUDA_ARCH__` is defined).
Asserts for CUDA devices can be turned back on by turning the
`VTKm_NO_ASSERT_CUDA` CMake variable off. Turning this CMake variable off
will enable assertions in CUDA kernels unless there is another reason
turning off all asserts (such as a release build).
It makes me irrationally nervous to check an empty file as the sentinel
data. Instead, add some text that can be compared agains. Also add some
explenation to the file to prevent naive developers from messing with
the file.
Currently, VTK-m is using C++11. However, it is often useful to use
features in the `std` namespace that are defined for C++14 or later. We
can provide our own versions (sometimes), but it is preferable to use
the version provided by the compiler if available.
There were already some examples of defining portable versions of C++14
and C++17 classes in a `vtkmstd` namespace, but these were sprinkled
around the source code.
There is now a top level `vtkmstd` directory and in it are header files
that provide portable versions of these future C++ classes. In each
case, preprocessor macros are used to select which version of the class
to use.
3a47058cb Use cache variables.
76ef9d15b Take advice of Robert and Kenneth on build system.
89fc012a2 Change CMakeLists.txt defaults in order to be more user-friendly.
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Kenneth Moreland <kmorel@sandia.gov>
Merge-request: !1771
