On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 16:39 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Torvald Riegel wrote: > > > What is the status of this or similar features (eg, lambdas) in ISO C? > > IOW, what was the feedback on the blocks part of > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1370.pdf, and are there > > any follow-ups? IMHO, it would be preferable to support what might have > > a chance of ending up in ISO C. > > There was no consensus on addition for C11 (see N1451/N1457, and the > Boulder minutes N1542).
Thanks for the pointers. > There is no current revision process for a new C > standard version in which new features could be considered. But I would > guess that to the extent such features are relevant for parallelism they > might be considered in the CPLEX group. Perhaps (it hasn't happened so far AFAIK) -- although what CPLEX is currently looking at are Cilk and OpenMP, both of which demarcate parallel task differently (eg, with cilk_spawn). Maybe that will change if/when CPLEX starts to also consider library interfaces for task-based parallelism or for concurrency.
