multi-processor

David Berthelot davidb@Magma-DA.COM
Thu Oct 18 16:28:00 GMT 2001


mike stump wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:56:19 +0200
> > From: Valerie Cayol <V.Cayol@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr>
> > To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>
> > I run gcc on a linux pentium II and I am trying to compile a C code
> > so that it uses the two processors I have on this machine. Is that
> > possible and what are the compilation instructions ?
>
> This is off topic for the gcc list.  make -j4 is the compilation
> instruction.  If that is the wrong answer, then the correct answer is
> no.

Personally I don't think it's off topic, may be that it would a nice
feature to have in gcc one day. Automatic algorithm parallelization,
that would rock ! And I think that many people would be interested,
and automatic multi-processing would bring software to the next
level...

David



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