Re: [Gomp-discuss] Start of an OpenMP Implementation Spec

[Lars Segerlund]

> 
> I'll suggest one other first step that you may want to take.  Grab a
> copy of the gomp branch from gcc.gnu.org and create a new SSA pass that
>

  Ok, but this will take a couple of days for me, ( LOL, åun intended ). 
> Identifies a special switch statement by checking if it's using a
> magically named variable (say "__gomp_thread_id").
> It adds a function call to some threads library to spawn as many threads
> as cases you find in the switch.
> Adds the appropriate thread join calls at the end of the switch.
> 
> You could start by forcing each case of the switch to be a function call
> so that you don't have to build the function bodies yourself (some
> thread libraries want to launch functions).
> 

 Now this sounds like a start in the backend, and plausible one to !
 I'm all for.

> If anyone is interested, I could update the gomp branch from mainline to
> get the latest bits.
>

 Please do, since 3.5 is on it's way out wwe might as well have some recent 
code to work with.
 
> 
> Diego.
> 
> 
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