Support of clang 3.9/4.0 with OpenMP3.1

[Wolfgang]

Hello,

it was very nice to see clang updated to version 3.3 in CVI2015; I wish this support of current versions of clang will be continued in the future, so I am hoping that with CVI2017 we might get clang 3.9 or 4.0 because of the following issues:

- many many bug fixes in clang

- improved diagnostics

- support of C11

- full support of OpenMP 3.1 and beyond

Thanks!!

[Wolfgang]

In the mean time OpenMP 4.5 has been released, supported by clang 3.9 and later

I very much like the support of OpenMP because this is a pretty simple and straightforward approach for developing code with parallel computing - it is just one line such as

#pragma omp parallel for private ( y )

to have a for loop parallized; for arrays / data sets of some thousand data points this makes a significant difference.

Hence I update my suggestion to

Support of clang 3.9 (or later) with OpenMP4.5

 

[Wolfgang]

Let me give just two reasons for my wish for OpenMP 4.5 or later: these are the much improved support of arrays and error handling, in particular the keywords

• reduction
• taskloop
• taskwait
• cancel

Thanks!