Re: [Gomp-discuss] Questions, questions

[Lars Segerlund]

 Hi again,

  g95 is quite good now, and it's frontend is VERY easy to work with, so I 
think it would be safe to say it's ready for OpenMP.

 The thing about academic fortran programmers are that often they are afraid of 
computers :-) ... so they want a magic 'parrallell thingie' to solve their 
parallellization issues for them. Which is good and bad, and then there are the 
exeptions which forces progress on the mediocre crowd :-) ( Pun intended ).

 As for your point 3. we decided to use Posix threads, and abstract the rest in 
the lib. ( thus different thread implementation and so on different lib, no 
code change), i think :-) ..

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:51:19 -0500
Scott Robert Ladd <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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...
> 
> -- 
> Scott Robert Ladd
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> 
> 
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