OpenMP options and threading models

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Other target libraries like libjava just use the thread model
> determined by --enable-threads.  This makes sense since that option
> controls what threading primitives are used by libgcc.

This has been my thinking, too. It seems to me that keying off of 
--enable-threads is what users will expect.

> So, IMO, this should be the default.  Adding some other option may
> make sense depending on the needs of OpenMP.

Some OpenMP implementations (usually OpenMP->C translators) offer 
threading options; most commercial compilers have a single threading model.


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