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Re: [wwwdocs] RFC - mention Cilk Plus in the GCC 4.9 release notes
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: "Iyer, Balaji V" <balaji dot v dot iyer at intel dot com>
- Cc: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 21:38:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] RFC - mention Cilk Plus in the GCC 4.9 release notes
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> _Cilk_spawn is the correct keyword. "cilk_spawn" can be used if the user includes <cilk/cilk.h> which has the following 3 lines (and that's the whole file)
>
> #define cilk_spawn _Cilk_spawn
> #define cilk_sync _Cilk_sync
> #define cilk_for _Cilk_for
>
>
> In Cilk there are basically 3 keywords: _Cilk_spawn, _Cilk_sync and _Cilk_for. _Cilk_for patch is still under review but _Cilk_spawn and _Cilk_sync keywords are supported.
Thanks for explaining. But that should be somewhere in the
documentation. I think you could just put that paragraph in there.
How about all the pragmas, or do these only only exist on icc?
How about special functions?
Basically should have a list of what cilkplus means here.
-Andi
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