Reusing OpenMP front end infrastructure for OpenACC -- how?

Nathan Sidwell nathan@acm.org
Thu Sep 19 09:42:00 GMT 2013


On 09/05/13 16:02, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> I think there is no point in renaming the existing stuff, we use it for some
> Cilk+ stuff too these days, renaming could only complicate maintainance,
> making it harder to backport OpenMP bugfixes to older release branches etc.
> IMHO just use from the OpenMP parsing, trees and gimple stuff whatever is
> usable for OpenACC too, and just for stuff that doesn't have counterparts
> add oacc/OACC stuff.

Yeah, I agree.  Names are sticky.

nathan



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