Compiling applications for the new SMP processors

[Tim Prince]

Jerin Joy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a newbie here. A friend of mine got a new dual core processor
> laptop. I was wondering if compiling standard applications using gcc
> will build binaries which can fully utilize the hardware - 686
> instruction set with SMP. I'm assuming here that the application is
> multithreaded.
> If it does, is there an flag to be passed during compile time?
gcc 4.2 supports OpenMP, requiring appropriate #pragma omp directives, 
along with -fopenmp flag.