Implementing OpenMP pragmas for the C front end
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Fri Feb 7 22:27:00 GMT 2003
>>>>> Neil Booth writes:
>> ----------
>> /* ERROR - The flush directive cannot be the immediate
>> * substatement of an if statement. */
>> if (x!=0)
>> #pragma omp flush (x)
Neil> Surely not. I think this is a *really really* bad idea; I wouldn't
Neil> support it going into GCC. It's simply not the way C and C++ work.
Unfortunately, this is a public standard. Somehow we need to be
compatible.
What we really want is some way of converting
#pragma omp flush (x)
to
__builtin_omp_flush (x);
which is a more natural way of implementing this and would allow semantic
error checking.
David
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