OpenMP support in gcc

[Tim Prince]

On Tuesday 26 March 2002 09:59, Thomas M. Evans wrote:
> GCC Team,
>
> 	Are there currently any plans to provide an OpenMP (2.0 standard)
> compliant extension to the gcc (g++) compiler?  If there are not, or
> if there are, but they are not well-supported, we (Los Alamos) may be
> able to help with funding.  I checked the gcc web pages and couldn't
> find anything in the current development plans for OpenMP.  Please
> let me know.  Thanks.
>
> Tom
Does anyone have any opinions of the credibility of the following?

The following free unsupported OpenMP pre-processors have been used with gcc:
http://phase.hpcc.jp/Omni/home.html 
http://www.it.kth.se/labs/cs/odinmp

In addition, of course, there exist commercial compilers which attempt to 
support OpenMP with some compatibility with gcc on specific architectures, 
such as Intel compilers for IA.  Supporting OpenMP on popular OS such as 
linux and Windows has proven to be a more ambitious undertaking than was 
originally believed.  I understand that quite recent changes in the glibc 
pthreads libraries, for example, have been required.
-- 
Tim Prince