Re: OpenMP, HPC, and the future of GCC

[David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>]

>>>>> Scott Robert Ladd writes:

Scott> Is GNU interested in supporting the HPC community? There are those of us
Scott> willing to put in the work if there is reasonable expectation that the gcc
Scott> "core" will accept it. But if HPC is going to be dismissed automatically, I
Scott> don't see the point of making an effort to implement HPC features.

Scott> One purported goal of the GNU Project is to provide free alternatives to
Scott> commercial products. Is GCC willing to surrender HPC to commercial compiler
Scott> vendors?

	The GCC community welcomes all developers and contributions
consistent with the GCC Project and GNU Project.  If volunteers want to
tackle HPC features for GCC, there are no inherent reasons for that work
would be rejected.

	No one can say that an arbitrary implementation of those features
automatically will be accepted -- we need to see the patches.  I would
recommend doing the development in public and discussing the evolving
design on the GCC mailinglists.  Open development allows the GCC community
to see the design, provide feedback and make eventually accept the work
for merge into the official GCC sources.

Thanks, David

	P.S. Approaching this with a demanding, confrontational "us vs
them" attitude is not productive.