gcc 4.4.2 = which version of OpenMP

[sd9]

I wanted to try out OpenMP tasks, so I installed the latest version of gcc (version 4.4.2) on my Linux system.

A post on stackoverflow.com says that the gcc manual speaks of the OpenMP version. When I checked the manual, it said something about version 2.5.

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-fopenmp Enable handling of OpenMP directives #pragma omp in C/C++ and !$omp
         in Fortran. When ‘-fopenmp’ is specified, the compiler generates parallel
         code according to the OpenMP Application Program Interface [b]v2.5[/b]
         http://www.openmp.org/. This option implies ‘-pthread’, and thus is only
         supported on targets that have support for ‘-pthread’.


Is that true? Does the latest version of gcc not have OpenMP 3? If so, where could I get it from?

[cterboven]

I do not think that this information is correct.
While I cannot prove that gcc 4.4.x has full OpenMP 3.0 support, I successfully used the task capabilities with gcc 4.4.1. The GOMP project webseite also states that gcc 4.4.x supports OpenMP 3.0: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/gomp/.

Kind regards,
Christian

[sd9]

Thanks cterboven. In that case, my program should have worked. But it gives this error:
task: /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1: version `GOMP_2.0' not found (required by task)

[nathanweeks]

They claim to support OpenMP 3.0 here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html

I submitted a bug report 7 months ago asking them to update the manual,
but it apparently hasn't been updated yet...

[sd9]

Hey thanks...that was useful.
Personally I feel that it is OpenMP's responsibility to mention in either a header file (omp.h) or a readme file bundled with gcc, about which version of OpenMP is being carried by that gcc.
I wonder why they didn't do that.

[nathanweeks]

The supported version of OpenMP will be available via the "_OPENMP" macro; e.g.,
with gcc 4.4.2:

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$ cat openmp_version.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
    printf("%i\n", _OPENMP);
    return 0;
}
$ gcc -fopenmp openmp_version.c
$ ./a.out
200805


This is year/month of the supported version. "200805" is OpenMP 3.0.

[sd9]

I tried it too. Same result. Thank you so much
Although I do wish there were version numbers