> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-patches-ow...@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-patches-
> ow...@gcc.gnu.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Burnus
> Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 2:24 PM
> To: Iyer, Balaji V; Gerald Pfeifer
> Cc: gcc-patches; Jakub Jelinek
> Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] RFC - mention Cilk Plus in the GCC 4.9 release notes
> 
> Iyer, Balaji V wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, I am referring to the following in gcc/doc/invoke.texi. From your
> answer, it should be either updated to "ABI version 1.1" - or, probably 
> better,
> the ABI version should be removed from invoke.texi. Here is the
> quote:
> 
> @item -fcilkplus
> @opindex fcilkplus
> @cindex Enable Cilk Plus
> Enable the usage of Cilk Plus language extension features for C/C++.
> When the option @option{-fcilkplus} is specified, enable the usage of the Cilk
> Plus Language extension features for C/C++.  The present implementation
> follows ABI version 0.9.  This is an experimental feature that is only 
> partially

Thank you for catching this. Yes, it should be ABI 1.1

> complete, and whose interface may change in future versions of GCC as the
> official specification changes.  Currently only the array notation feature of 
> the
> language specification has been implemented.  More features will be

The sentence "Current only..." should be changed to something like this:

Currently all the features except _Cilk_for has been implemented.

Thanks,

Balaji V. Iyer.


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