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Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:37:45 -0700
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Subject: Re: OpenMP and Cygwin
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Ami Marowka wrote:

> 
> I got the message:  "cc1plus: warning: command line option "-fopenmp" is valid 
> for D but not for C++"
> 
> I found that the gcc version is 3.4.4 !? Is there any reason why the LATEST 
> version of Cygwin uses so old gcc version?
> It seems that gcc version 3.4.4 does not support OpenMP.
> 
You'll find the topics you raised beaten nearly to death in the mailing 
list archives.  While it's not too difficult to build current g++ (without 
cygwin special patches) on Cygwin, I haven't found anything but 
performance loss for the resulting OpenMP.  Others have discussed the 
weaknesses of the attempting increased usage of exception handling.

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