[Patch][Cilkplus Branch] Updates and Bug fixes

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Tue Aug 30 08:02:00 GMT 2011


"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Iyer, Balaji V
> <balaji.v.iyer@intel.com> wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Here is a link for a new patch (http://software.intel.com/file/38290).  This patch is for the "cilkplus" branch and includes the following modifications:
>>
>> 1) Merges changes in the gcc master (SHA1: f326eb816922bc183133c09b25564d550ab9a282).
>> 2) Adds functionality to allow _Cilk_spawn inside constructors and destructors.
>> 3) The original code was storing the cilk_for scope as a tree_chain. This patch modifies it so that it is stored in the same location as FOR_SCOPE().
>> 4) The presence of a label inside a cilk_for loop was causing an ICE. This patch fixes that.
>> 5) Spawning a spawned function also was causing an ICE. This patch fixes that also.
>> 6) Adds the "__cilk" macro and sets it to 200.
>> 7) Adds test cases for all the fixes mentioned above.
>> 8) Fixes a bug in the libcilkrts runtime during initialization when the number of workers is greater than 3x the number of cores on the system.
>>
>
> I suggest you use separate steps to merge with trunk and fix the
> bugs.  Their order isn't important.  You should send the bug fixes
> directly to gcc-patches mailing list.

Also it would be good if you cleaned up your original patch a bit.
I noticed that it has a lot of white space changes to unrelated code,
which makes it hard to figure out what it actually changes.

-Andi



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