> -----Original Message----- > From: Gerald Pfeifer [mailto:ger...@pfeifer.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 1:29 PM > To: Tobias Burnus > Cc: gcc-patches; Iyer, Balaji V; Jakub Jelinek > Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] RFC - mention Cilk Plus in the GCC 4.9 release notes > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2014, Tobias Burnus wrote: > > the attached patch mentions the support of Cilk Plus in GCC 4.9 in the > > release notes, http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html > > > > Is the patch OK? > > "Plus is an extension...", should this read "Cilk Plus is an extension?" >
Yes Cilk Plus is a language extension. It is enabled with -fcilkplus flag. > If so, I suggest to switch the second and third sentences: first explain what > it > is, then go into specifics such as ABI. > Cilk Plus supports both task and data parallelism and Cilk Plus and thus far all features except _Cilk_for is supported in 4.9. I am not sure what ABI you are referring to but Cilk Plus follows Cilk ABI 1.1. > Looks good to me otherwise (modulo the ABI question I cannot answer :-). > > Gerald
