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From: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
To: Giuliano Belinassi <giuliano.belinassi@usp.br>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
	kernel-usp@googlegroups.com, gold@ime.usp.br,
		Alfredo Goldman <alfredo.goldman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Parallelize the compilation using Threads
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiYyc3Gt9khFX+J5wBKs6h3D3e=1CT343SL9sy_GUpvqboDyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190211214624.3liqkdhb64engnja@smtp.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Giuliano Belinassi
<giuliano.belinassi@usp.br> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering what API should I use to spawn threads and control
> its flow. Should I use OpenMP, pthreads, or something else?
>
> My point what if we break compatibility with something. If we use
> OpenMP, I'm afraid that we will break compatibility with compilers not
> supporting it. On the other hand, If we use pthread, we will break
> compatibility with non-POSIX systems (Windows).

I'm not sure we have a thread abstraction for the host - we do have
one for the target via libgcc gthr.h though.  For prototyping I'd resort
to this same interface and fixup the host != target case as needed.

Richard.

>
> Giuliano.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-12 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-15 10:12 Giuliano Augusto Faulin Belinassi
2018-11-15 11:44 ` Richard Biener
2018-11-15 15:54   ` Jonathan Wakely
2018-11-15 18:07   ` Jeff Law
2018-11-15 18:36   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-16 14:25   ` Martin Jambor
2018-11-16 22:40   ` Giuliano Augusto Faulin Belinassi
2018-11-19 14:36     ` Richard Biener
2018-12-12 15:46       ` Giuliano Augusto Faulin Belinassi
2018-12-13  8:12         ` Bin.Cheng
2018-12-14 14:15           ` Giuliano Belinassi
2018-12-17 11:06         ` Richard Biener
2019-01-14 11:42           ` Giuliano Belinassi
2019-01-14 12:23             ` Richard Biener
2019-01-15 21:45               ` Giuliano Belinassi
2019-01-16 12:44                 ` Richard Biener
2019-02-07 14:14       ` Giuliano Belinassi
2019-02-11 21:46       ` Giuliano Belinassi
2019-02-12 14:12         ` Richard Biener [this message]
2019-02-16  4:35           ` Oleg Endo

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