NAME

       atomicMax - perform an atomic max operation to a variable

DECLARATION

       int atomicMax(inout int mem, int data);

       uint atomicMax(inout uint mem, uint data);

PARAMETERS

       mem
           The variable to use as the target of the operation.

       data
           The data to be compared to mem.

DESCRIPTION

       atomicMax performs an atomic comparison of data to the contents of mem, writes the maximum
       value into mem and returns the original contents of mem from before the comparison
       occured. The contents of the memory being updated by the atomic operation are guaranteed
       not to be modified by any other assignment or atomic memory function in any shader
       invocation between the time the original value is read and the time the new value is
       written.

       Atomic memory functions are supported only for a limited set of variables. A shader will
       fail to compile if the value passed to the mem argument of an atomic memory function does
       not correspond to a buffer or shared variable. It is acceptable to pass an element of an
       array or a single component of a vector to the mem argument of an atomic memory function,
       as long as the underlying array or vector is a buffer or shared variable.

VERSION SUPPORT

       ┌──────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │          │        OpenGL Shading Language Version                                            │
       ├──────────┼──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┤
       │Function  │ 1.10 │ 1.20 │ 1.30 │ 1.40 │ 1.50 │ 3.30 │ 4.00 │ 4.10 │ 4.20 │ 4.30 │ 4.40 │ 4.50 │
       │Name      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │      │
       ├──────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┤
       │atomicMax │  -   │  -   │  -   │  -   │  -   │  -   │  -   │  -   │  -   │  ✔   │  ✔   │  ✔   │
       └──────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘

SEE ALSO

       atomicAdd(), atomicAnd(), atomicOr(), atomicXor(), atomicMin(), atomicExchange(),
       atomicCompSwap()

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2011-2014 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms
       and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
       http://opencontent.org/openpub/.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2012-2014 Khronos Group

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