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

[Robert Maynard]

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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