GCC

[Erik Mouw]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 08:55:05AM -0700, H. Rane wrote:
> is the gcc capable of generating code for
> multiprocessor computers, f.e. smp code ?
> 
> If not, is there any commercial linux c++ compiler
> capable to do so ?

There is no such thing as a C or C++ compiler for generating
multiprocessor code. You have to do the multiprocessing yourself, C or
C++ compilers won't do that for you. Things like POSIX threads will
help, but *you* still have to separate the program into threads.


Erik

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