Hello Ian, On 16 May 07:07, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Kirill Yukhin <kirill.yuk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > To support the offloading features for Intel's Xeon Phi cards > > we need to add a foreign library (liboffload) into the gcc repository. > > README with build instructions is attached. > > Can you explain why this library should be part of GCC, and how GCC > would use it? I'm sure it's obvious to you but it's not obvious to > me. The ‘target’ clause of OpenMP 4.0 aka ‘offloading’ support is expected to be a part of libgomp. Every target platform that will be supported should implement a dedicated plugin for libgomp. The plugin for Xeon PHI is based on the liboffload functionality. This library also will provide compatibility for binaries built with ICC.
-- Thanks, K > > Ian
