[cfe-dev] Clang/LLVM OpenMP program not spawning threads

[Jack Howarth]

Hans,
     If we miss the 3.7.0 release, the fact that the LLVM OpenMP
library is defaulted off in the 3.7.0 release should be clearly stated
on the first mention of OpenMP library support in the release notes.
We should also apologize for this suboptimal situation and promise to
remedy it in the 3.7.1 release. Frankly admitting this defect in the
3.7.0 release might at least mitigate the amount of needless traffic
on the mailing lists from users befuddled by this unexpected
*feature*.
            Jack

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Chisnall" <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk>
>>> To: "Anton Korobeynikov" <anton at korobeynikov.info>
>>> Cc: "Jaime Arteaga" <jandres742 at gmail.com>, "cfe-dev" <cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 6:18:51 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] Clang/LLVM OpenMP program not spawning threads
>>>
>>> On 28 Jul 2015, at 12:13, Anton Korobeynikov
>>> <anton at korobeynikov.info> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Probably for 3.7 we'd need to issue a warning / error for -fopenmp
>>> > w/o libomp.
>>>
>>> And make everyone using OpenMP modify their build systems for a
>>> single release of clang, when we could just make -fopenmp do the
>>> right thing?
>>
>> I agree that this would be quite unfortunate. It took some time to have a CMake build system for the runtime library that everyone has been satisfied with. I'm under the impression that we could change the default at this point, but I'm not sure what that would require in terms of the release cycle. I've cc'd Chandler, as he's been driving the project-level QoI requirements for this, and Hans for the obvious reason ;)
>
> As for the release cycle, I'd still be willing to take a merge for
> this, but not for much longer. I'm planning to cut RC2 this week (late
> Wednesday, or Thursday) and after that it's bug fixes only. The
> question of merging is still very hypothetical though, as there hasn't
> been any change on trunk that I'm aware of.
>
>  - Hans
>
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