On Tue, 2019-02-12 at 15:12 +0100, Richard Biener wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Giuliano Belinassi > <giuliano.belina...@usp.br> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I was just wondering what API should I use to spawn threads and > > control > > its flow. Should I use OpenMP, pthreads, or something else? > > > > My point what if we break compatibility with something. If we use > > OpenMP, I'm afraid that we will break compatibility with compilers > > not > > supporting it. On the other hand, If we use pthread, we will break > > compatibility with non-POSIX systems (Windows). > > I'm not sure we have a thread abstraction for the host - we do have > one for the target via libgcc gthr.h though. For prototyping I'd > resort > to this same interface and fixup the host != target case as needed.
Or maybe, in the year 2019, we could assume that most c++ compilers which are used to compile GCC support c++11 and come with an adequate <thread> implementation... yeah, I know, sounds jacked :) Cheers, Oleg
