[llvm-dev] Regarding Compiler support

Andrey Bokhanko via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jan 2 15:54:59 PST 2017


In addition to what Paul said:

On Wednesday, December 28, 2016, Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> The advantage of a compiler that understands OpenMP directly is that you
> save a step in your build process, and probably get better debugging info
> making your program easier to debug.


...and get better performing code as well -- some pragmas, like #omp simd,
can't be expressed in plain C++ (unless one relies on some other pragmas...
;-)), so won't be expanded properly by a preprocessor.

Yours,
Andrey


> --paulr
>
> > I would be very grateful if i get answers to these.
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Regards
> > Hameeza Ahmed
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