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[FangQ]

Floating point atomic operations are not supported, at least in OpenCL 1.2 or earlier, I have to use the atomic_xchg hack other people proposed. see

https://github.com/fangq/mcxcl/blob/master/src/mcx_core.cl#L212-L215

I am wondering if there is any official/unofficial support of floating point atomic functions? or atomc_xchg is currently the only way to use with opencl? can't imagine such important operators are still not supported.

[dipak]

Atomic Functions - OpenCL1.2 says: "Only the atomic_xchg operation is supported for single precision floating-point data type."

Here is a nice article which shows how atomic_cmpxchg can be used to implement other atomic functions for float : Atomic operations for floats in OpenCL - improved - StreamHPC