[Gomp-discuss] Introduction and a test case

[Ioannis E. Venetis]

Hello to everyone!

Although I regularly read the discussions at the GOMP mailing list, I 
subscribed just today. Therefore, I though that I should first introduce 
myself.

My name is Ioannis Venetis and I am a PhD student and Research 
Assistant. I have quite some experience with run-time support for 
OpenMP, since I have participated in two projects that deal with OpenMP 
and have written code for a threading library for these projects.

Unfortunately, my knowledge about compilers and specifically GCC is very 
limited. I have really a hard time to follow the discussion when it 
comes to the implementation issues in GCC, especially when I see 
front-end, middle-end, gimple and more of these strange words :-). But 
maybe I will be able to help a bit in the library.

Reading the last messages in the mailing list I saw that we are looking 
for a test case that just tests the features of the compiler. I believe 
that we could use the EPCC OpenMP Microbenchmarks 
(http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/research/openmpbench/openmp_index.html) for 
that. They purpose is to measure the overhead of OpenMP directives as 
implemented in the library and therefore they consist of very simple 
programs that include most (if not all) directives of OpenMP. I believe 
that this makes them suitable for testing the compiler. Moreover, there 
are both C and Fortran versions. Maybe we should have a look at them?

Best wishes,

Ioannis