Compiling applications for the new SMP processors

[Olivier Delannoy]

Application that are already multithread will benefits directly of SMP
capabilities. This is not related to the way you compile your
application only to the capability of the underlying OS.



On 7/11/06, Tim Prince <timothyprince@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>