<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On May 23, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Cameron McInally <<a href="mailto:cameron.mcinally@nyu.edu">cameron.mcinally@nyu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">In all fairness, I do not believe that ivdep is an ICC-specific pragma. There are many compilers that support ivdep and lots of legacy (and modern) codes that benefit from it. Seems silly, to me at least, to reinvent the wheel. </span></blockquote></div><br><div>Hi Cameron, </div><div><br></div><div>The history of the idvep pragma is fascinating. I did not know that it predated ANSI. People who care about cray compatibility should provide aliases for #ivdep. The name “ivdep” is simply terrible. There is no good reason not to come up with a syntax that is actually meaningful to people. I like arnold’s idea to add additional options so the ‘vector’ pragma.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nadav</div></body></html>