RE: [Gomp-discuss] Re: Implementing OpenMP pragmas for the Cfront end

[Steven Bosscher]

Op za 08-02-2003, om 14:54 schreef Scott Robert Ladd:
> Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > It's also very likely that people are more interested in OpenMP for C++
> > than for C.  I've never seen any serious numerical code in C, and lots
> > of them in C++.
> 
> That could very well change. C99 focused on numerical extensions; it is, in
> some ways, superior to Fortran 95 for floating-point work. Many C99
> extensions are incompatible with C++; see David Tribble's excellent site for
> more detail:

I thought a big part of that was in IEEE arithmetic support, which GCC
does not support (there are non-IEEE targets in GCC).  F95 has IEEE as
an extension and a reworked version of it is part of F2k.

Greetz
Steven