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RE: [wwwdocs] RFC - mention Cilk Plus in the GCC 4.9 release notes
- From: "Iyer, Balaji V" <balaji dot v dot iyer at intel dot com>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>
- Cc: gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 19:15:09 +0000
- Subject: RE: [wwwdocs] RFC - mention Cilk Plus in the GCC 4.9 release notes
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Pfeifer [mailto:gerald@pfeifer.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 1:29 PM
> To: Tobias Burnus
> Cc: gcc-patches; Iyer, Balaji V; Jakub Jelinek
> Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] RFC - mention Cilk Plus in the GCC 4.9 release notes
>
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2014, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> > the attached patch mentions the support of Cilk Plus in GCC 4.9 in the
> > release notes, http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html
> >
> > Is the patch OK?
>
> "Plus is an extension...", should this read "Cilk Plus is an extension?"
>
Yes Cilk Plus is a language extension. It is enabled with -fcilkplus flag.
> If so, I suggest to switch the second and third sentences: first explain what it
> is, then go into specifics such as ABI.
>
Cilk Plus supports both task and data parallelism and Cilk Plus and thus far all features except _Cilk_for is supported in 4.9. I am not sure what ABI you are referring to but Cilk Plus follows Cilk ABI 1.1.
> Looks good to me otherwise (modulo the ABI question I cannot answer :-).
>
> Gerald