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            <keyword>Atomic Functions</keyword>
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        <refentrytitle>Atomic Functions</refentrytitle>
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        <refname>Atomic Functions</refname>
        <refpurpose>
The atomic functions are shown below.
Click an item in the table below for details about that function.
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<refsect1 id="springboard"><title></title>

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        <row>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomic_init</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomic_work_item_fence</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomic_store</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_store"><refentrytitle>atomic_store_explicit</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomic_exchange</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_exchange"><refentrytitle>atomic_exchange_explicit</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_compare_exchange"><refentrytitle>atomic_compare_exchange_strong</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_compare_exchange"><refentrytitle>atomic_compare_exchange_strong_explicit</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_compare_exchange"><refentrytitle>atomic_compare_exchange_weak</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>

            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_compare_exchange"><refentrytitle>atomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicit</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomic_fetch_key</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_fetch_key"><refentrytitle>atomic_fetch_key_explicit</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomic_flag_test_and_set</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>

            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_flag_test_and_set"><refentrytitle>atomic_flag_test_and_set_explicit</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
        </row>

        <row>
            <entry>
                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomic_flag_clear</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>

            <entry>
                <citerefentry href="atomic_flag_clear"><refentrytitle>atomic_flag_clear_explicit</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            </entry>
        </row>

    </tbody>

    </tgroup></informaltable>

    <bridgehead>64-bit Atomics</bridgehead>

    <para>
        The optional extension 
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_base_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        implements atomic operations on 64-bit signed 
        and unsigned integers to locations in <code>__global</code>
        and <code>__local</code> memory.
    </para>

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    <para>
      The <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
      extension enables additional atomic functions using types <type>long</type>
      and <type>unsigned long</type>.  An application that wants to use
      this extension will need to include the <code>#pragma OPENCL EXTENSION
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
      : enable</code> in the OpenCL program source.
    </para>

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    </refsect1>

    <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            As of OpenCL version 1.1, 
            <code>cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics</code>, 
            <code>cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics</code>, 
            <code>cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics</code> and 
            <code>cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics</code> 
            extensions are core features. The built-in atomic function names are changed to use the 
            <code>atomic_ prefix</code> instead of <code>atom_</code>.
        </para>

        <para>
            The list of supported atomic type names are:
        </para>

        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem><type>atomic_int</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_uint</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_long</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_ulong</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_float</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_double</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_intptr_t</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_uintptr_t</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_size_t</type></listitem>
            <listitem><type>atomic_ptrdiff_t</type></listitem>
        </itemizedlist>

        <para>
            The <type>atomic_long</type> and <type>atomic_ulong</type> types are supported if the 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_base_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry> and 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry> 
            extensions are supported.
        </para>

        <para>
            The <type>atomic_double</type> type is only supported if double precision is supported and the 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_base_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry> and 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry> 
            extensions are supported.
        </para>

        <para>
            If the device address space is 64-bits, the data types 
            <type>atomic_intptr_t</type>, <type>atomic_uintptr_t</type>, 
            <type>atomic_size_t</type> and <type>atomic_ptrdiff_t</type> are supported if the 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_base_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry> and 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics</refentrytitle></citerefentry> 
            extensions are supported.
        </para>

        <para>
            Arguments to a kernel can be declared to be a pointer to the above atomic types or the 
            <type>atomic_flag</type> type.
        </para>

        <para>
            The representation of atomic integer, floating-point 
            and pointer types have the same size as their 
            corresponding regular types. The <type>atomic_flag</type> 
            type must be implemented as a 32-bit integer.
        </para>

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    <refsect1 id="specification"><title>Specification</title>
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            <olink uri="atomicFunctions">OpenCL Specification</olink>
        </para>

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        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>memory_order</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>memory_scope</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry href="atomic_flag"><refentrytitle>atomic_flag type</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
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