[fpc-pascal] Common OpenMP syntax?

[Vinzent Hoefler]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 10:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 July 2006 09:46, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > > It seems obvious to me that a global function can be called in
> > > parallel at any time.  The compiler can perfectly detect whether
> > > a global function writes to variables outside it's own scope, in
> > > which case it's probably a no-no to paralellize the function.
> >
> > Hey, you're trying to put more burden on the compiler here as the
> > spec even allows, I'd say.
> >
> > Don't go on or you'll end up with the requirement for compile time
> > dead-lock detection. :)
>
> Well, my statement is moderate in the sense that the compiler does
> this anyway already (see the hints/warnings about unused
> params/vars); let's use this information as much as we can.

True. Using information that's already there, can't be wrong. I second 
that.

We're not C, where everything is standardized to be the programmer's 
problem. So yes, if concurrency will ever be implemented in the 
language, no matter how, some decent warnings/hints/notes about several 
questionable constructs would be nice.


Vinzent.