GCC and Intel Xeon Phi (Intel MIC) support

[Tim Prince]

On 3/21/2013 4:23 PM, Bharath Ramesh wrote:
> I am working on a research project for which I require using GCC 
> compiler and I am also using Intel Xeon Phi (aka Intel MIC) 
> co-processor cards. Looking at the Intel's website it states changes 
> have been committed to GCC [1]. I was wondering which version of GCC 
> supports it and what flag should I add for it to generate code that 
> can run on the Intel Xeon Phi cards. If I have to compile GCC to 
> support it what flags do I pass to it while building GCC. Really 
> appreciate any help on this.
>
> [1] 
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-and-third-party-tools-and-libraries-available-with-support-for-intelr-xeon-phitm
>
This gcc doesn't support the parallel floating point instructions (as 
your reference says), and several linux components normally built with 
it are de-featured.  The cross-compiled gcc is supplied with the 
coprocessor linux installation.

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Tim Prince