These changes now allow VTK-m to compile on CUDA 7.5 by using const arrays,
when compiling with CUDA 8+ support we upgrade to static const arrays, and
lastly when CUDA is disabled we fully elevate to static constexpr.
If a global static array is declared with VTKM_EXEC_CONSTANT and the code
is compiled by nvcc (for multibackend code) then the array is only accesible
on the GPU. If for some reason a worklet fails on the cuda backend and it is
re-executed on any of the CPU backends, it will continue to fail.
We couldn't find a simple way to declare the array once and have it available
on both CPU and GPU. The approach we are using here is to declare the arrays
as static inside some "Get" function which is marked as VTKM_EXEC_CONT.
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.
- Exception classes cannot be exported due to MSVC's design decisions.
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24511376. We must leave these
classes as header only and silence the warnings.
- TransferResource in BufferState.h must remain a header-only class since
there is no vtkm_interop library to compile the class into.
- The VTKDataSetReader hierarchy must similarly remain header-only since
there is no vtkm_io library.
- The OptionParser Action classes are part of a header-only utility and
cannot be easily compiled into a library.
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Change the VTKM_CONT_EXPORT to VTKM_CONT. (Likewise for EXEC and
EXEC_CONT.) Remove the inline from these macros so that they can be
applied to everything, including implementations in a library.
Because inline is not declared in these modifies, you have to add the
keyword to functions and methods where the implementation is not inlined
in the class.
This is using the C++11 override keyword to make the compiler check to
ensure that we are correctly overriding virtual methods when we mean to.
Currently this will not compile without C++11. However, we are planning
on moving to C++11 very soon, and we can fix the macro if we don't.
MSVC likes to warn about using raw pointers as iterators in generic
algorithms because they have been known to lead to problems. When
compiling with that compiler, wrap raw pointers in
stdext::checked_array_pointer to suppress the error and also add a bit
more checking.
We made this change a while ago to help with completion in IDEs.
(Completion was matching a bunch of wrapper macros that were almost
never used anywhere.) Most of the changes are in comments, but there are
a few bad macro definitions.
