[Bug libgomp/33720] A negative value in OpenMP clause num_threads is not detected at runtime

["manu at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #3 from manu at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-08-07 02:55 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm not sure we should do anything about this.
> We have a warning if the compiler can detect non-positive value at compile
> time,
> but we certainly can't ever issue any diagnostic at runtime for num_threads
> 0 (because the implementation uses that value to mean no num_threads clause was
> present) and I'm not convinced the runtime library needs to be verbose to
> stderr.  So e.g. silently assuming just one thread is IMHO better than doing
> gomp_fatal in there.  You shouldn't expect any particular behavior from program
> which triggers undefined behavior.

But in this case the value is negative, not zero, and it seems that gomp_fatal
is already being called:

libgomp: Out of memory allocating 34359738400 bytes

It will be better to print the cause of that "out of memory" error, that is,
that the number of threads was negative.


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