[Openmp-dev] Fwd: Re: Building libomptarget/plugins for Fedora

[Tom Stellard via Openmp-dev]

On 03/28/2018 07:42 AM, Joachim Protze via Openmp-dev wrote:
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> - Joachim
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> Hi Tom,
> 
> the plugins enable the actual offloading to accelerator devices. Without the plugins, the OpenMP target pragmas should be ignored or you might get runtime errors if the tool chain is broken. In any case, you cannot use the accelerator with OpenMP without having the plugins.
> 

Ok, thanks, and when you say accelerator does that mean a non-CPU device
or can the CPU be considered and accelerator too?

-Tom

> Best
> Joachim
> 
> Tom Stellard via Openmp-dev <openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org>> schrieb am Mi., 28. März 2018, 06:59:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     We currently aren't building the libomptarget plugins on Fedora, and I'm
>     wondering if it would be beneficial for us to start building these
>     plugins.
>     Do these enable some functionality which wouldn't otherwise be
>     available?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Tom
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