@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ OpenMP and OpenACC are supported with GCC's C, C++ and Fortran compilers.</p>
<li>To enable <strong><a href="https://www.openmp.org">OpenMP</a></strong>,
use <a
href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Dialect-Options.html#index-fopenmp"
- ><code>-fopenmp</code></a>; <code>-fopenmp-simd</code> can be used
+ ><code>-fopenmp</code></a>. <code>-fopenmp-simd</code> can be used
to enable only the SIMD vectorization and loop-transformation constructs
- without creating multiple threads, offloading code or adding library
+ without creating multiple threads, offloading code or adding a library
dependency.</li>
<li>To enable <strong><a href="https://www.openacc.org">OpenACC</a></strong>,
use <a
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ OpenMP and OpenACC are supported with GCC's C, C++ and Fortran compilers.</p>
<ul>
<li>The <a
href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Developer-Options.html#index-fopt-info"
- ><code>-fopt-info</code></a> flag provides details about compile-time performed
- optimizations.</li>
+ ><code>-fopt-info</code></a> flag provides details about optimizations
+ at compile time.</li>
<li>Environment variables can be used to influence run-time behavior and output
more data, useful for debugging or performance tuning. See the <a
href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libgomp/">GNU libgomp</a> manual for
@@ -103,32 +103,31 @@ time-consuming and arcane task.
</p>
<p>OpenMP offers a simple way of exploiting parallelism without
-interfering with algorithm design; an OpenMP program compiles and
+interfering with algorithm design. An OpenMP program compiles and
operates correctly in both parallel and serial execution
environments. Using OpenMP's directive-based parallelism also
-simplifies the act of converting existing serial code to
-efficient parallel code.</p>
+simplifies converting existing serial code to efficient parallel code.</p>
-<p>OpenMP additionally permits to offload computations on
+<p>OpenMP additionally permits to offload computations to
accelerators such as <abbr title="Graphical Processing Units">GPUs</abbr>,
-making use of their highly parallel computation support; if
+making use of their highly parallel computation support. If
no accelerator is available, as fallback, the computation is
-then done on the host.</p>
+done on the host.</p>
<p>To remain relevant, free software development tools must
support emerging technologies. By implementing OpenMP, GOMP
-provides a simplified syntax tools for creating software targeted
+provides a simple tool for creating software targeted
at parallel architectures. OpenMP's platform-neutral syntax
meshes well with the portability goals of GCC and other GNU
projects.</p>
-<p>The GOMP release includes a support library, libgomp, and
+<p>GOMP includes a support library (libgomp) and
extensions to target language parsers. A long-term goal is
the generation of efficient and small code for OpenMP applications.</p>
<p>When support for OpenACC was added, the project name <q>GOMP</q>
was reinterpreted as <q>GNU Offloading and Multi-Processing</q> instead
-of denoting <q>GNU OpenMP</q>.
+of denoting <q>GNU OpenMP</q>.</p>
<h2 id="contributing">Contributing</h2>
<p>We encourage everyone to
@@ -1151,7 +1150,7 @@ Version 5.1</a> has been released.</p></dd>
Technical Report 9: Version 5.1 Public Comment Draft</a> has been released.</p></dd>
<dt><b>May 7, 2020</b></dt>
-<dd><p><a href="../../gcc-10/">GCC 10 has been released</a>; it adds a number of
+<dd><p><a href="../../gcc-10/">GCC 10 has been released</a>. It adds a number of
newly implemented OpenMP 5.0 features on top of the GCC 9 release such as
<code>conditional</code> <code>lastprivate</code> clause, <code>scan</code>
and <code>loop</code> directives, <code>order(concurrent)</code> and
@@ -1181,7 +1180,7 @@ mapping.</p></dd>
<dt><b>April 27, 2016</b></dt>
<dd><p><a href="../../gcc-6/">GCC 6 has been released</a> and
version 4.5 of the OpenMP specification is now supported in the C and
-C++ compilers</p></dd>
+C++ compilers.</p></dd>
<dt><b>November 14, 2015</b></dt>
<dd><p>The final <a