[cfe-dev] CLOMP: OpenMP frontend for Clang (and much more)

[Simone Pellegrini]

On Tue 08 May 2012 08:08:53 PM CEST, Hal Finkel wrote:
> Simone,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to extract this from your codebase. For
> any of this code to be directly usable in clang, it will need to be
> relicensed (most of the files seem to be under the GPL currently). Once
> that is done, I will certainly help with the rebasing, coding-standards
> changes, etc.

The GPL is not an issue, I can relax it. However I need to know what 
kind of license you need, I am not allowed to release the code without 
any license.

cheers, Simone

>
> Sincerely,
> Hal
>
> On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:11:39 +0200
> Simone Pellegrini<spellegrini at dps.uibk.ac.at>  wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I worked for some time on an OpenMP frontend based on Clang. This is
>> not just an OpenMP frontend but a more comprehensive framework to
>> handle user defined pragmas. OpenMP is implemented just to test its
>> functionalities. This was implemented as part of a bigger project
>> called insieme which is developed at the university of Innsbruck (
>> http://insieme-compiler.org/). Several people asked me to release
>> this code since long time and I finally took some time to isolate the
>> pragma handling mechanism from the rest of the project and open
>> source it. This is only the frontend part, there is no backend.
>> Therefore, if you happen to have an OpenMP backend for LLVM and you
>> need a frontend then you just found your soul mate :)
>>
>> I host this code in the following repository:
>> https://github.com/motonacciu/clomp
>>
>> This project contains the infrastructure for pragma handling and the
>> OpenMP frontend. It doesn't work on the current SVN release on clang.
>> It requires LLVM/Clang 3.0 and additionally a small patch has to be
>> applied to Clang in order for the all thing to work. However the
>> patch can be easily updated to work with the latest clang. The
>> project contains a couple of examples that show how it is meant to be
>> used.
>>
>> In order to compile the project you need to do 2 things. First of all
>> install the patched version of LLVM/Clang. This can be done by
>> running the llvm-3.0-installer.sh script stored in the script folder.
>> Clomp is built with cmake. Specify the
>> LLVM_HOME=/path/to/patched-llvm env variable when you run CMAKE. It
>> is required to set up some internal paths. (I will add installation
>> instruction in the project web page soon)
>>
>> It would be nice to have the code in Clang (so that I don't have to
>> update the patch every time a new release of clang comes along) but I
>> really have no time to rewrite everything to conform with the coding
>> style of LLVM. I use C++11 a lot and templates as well and I know
>> LLVM how people here feel about those things. :) Also the code was
>> first written more than 1 year ago and I suppose in the meantime
>> several things have changed in Clang and probably there is an easier
>> way to do some of the things. If someone is interested in taking over
>> the effort of going through a code review and port it into clang I
>> can help, just contact me. The code is well tested and functional. It
>> can handle several OpenMP benchmark codes like the NAS Parallel
>> Benchmarks and Rodinia benchmarks.
>>
>> Everyone can use it. If you do so, please cite. I am open to research
>> collaborations.
>>
>> cheers, Simone
>>
>>
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