It is very easy to cause ODR violations with DeviceAdapterTagCuda.
If you include that header from a C++ file and a CUDA file inside
the same program we an ODR violation. The reasons is that the C++
versions will say the tag is invalid, and the CUDA will say the
tag is valid.
The solution to this is that any compilation unit that includes
DeviceAdapterTagCuda from a version of VTK-m that has CUDA enabled
must be invoked by the cuda compiler.
Sandia National Laboratories recently changed management from the
Sandia Corporation to the National Technology & Engineering Solutions
of Sandia, LLC (NTESS). The copyright statements need to be updated
accordingly.
This is necessary since the class has virtual methods, and also
instructs the compiler that the class's vtable is to be stored in the
vtk_rendering library.
Instead of labeling each method that needs to have visibility
we can label entire classes, this reduces the amount of noise and
potential for mistakes when writing classes.
The clang compiler was running into linker errors constructors of
classes with virtual methods that were inline and destructors that were
not declared at all. In this case, the compiler was not creating
everything needed by a virtual table and the link died.
