This is the mail archive of the gdb@sourceware.org mailing list for the GDB project.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: multi-{inferior,exec}

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:03:48AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> This sounds like the "barrier" feature in HPD.
> A patch for this would be interesting, too.
> 
> I am curious though -- what is it useful for?

Think about this in terms of, for example, automatically parallelized
OpenMP code.  If you have a parallel region, it's handy to examine all
threads at that point.  I don't know if this would work better in UPC
than it would in OpenMP though; you can have code executed in only
some threads...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]