[Gomp-discuss] Questions, questions

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Hi,

I've been going over the original specs document this morning.

1) The document asks if C and C++ share the same specification -- as far 
as I can tell, yes they do. Some people have written C++ wrapper classes 
for OpenMP, but those are outside the standard (and should work with our 
eventual implementation).

2) Has GNU Fortran 95 reached the point where it is mature-enough for 
discussion? I'm using it on a regular basis for my AMD64 work. From my 
conversations in the Fortran community, it would seem that OpenMP 
support is required if a Fortran 95 compiler is to be taken seriously.

3) Did we ever make a decision on the fudnamental threading model; i.e., 
how we were going to abstract threads such that different 
implementations (pthreads, NPTL) can be "plugged in" to OpenMP?

4) The library "boostrap" doesn't work on my latest system due to an 
autoconf version conflict (gentoo-amd64 installs autoconf-2.58, the 
boostrap complains that it needs 2.59). I assume I should complain at 
the gentoo folk? Or should we be more portable to slightly-older 
versions fo autoconf?

More to come, I'm sure...

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Scott Robert Ladd
Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
Software Invention for High-Performance Computing