Developer Guide and Reference

ID 767253
Date 10/31/2024
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Document Table of Contents

fopenmp

Enables recognition of OpenMP* features and tells the parallelizer to generate multi-threaded code based on OpenMP* directives. This option leads to lowering of OpenMP constructs in the compiler front-end (as it is implemented by the LLVM community) and is expected to be not as performant as using the option -fiopenmp, which enables the Intel implementation of OpenMP constructs where the lowering is done in the compiler backend. Also, this option does not support offloading to GPUs.

Syntax

Linux:

-fopenmp

Windows:

None

Arguments

None

Default

OFF

No OpenMP* multi-threaded code is generated by the compiler.

Description

This option enables recognition of OpenMP* features and tells the parallelizer to generate multi-threaded code based on OpenMP* directives.

This option is meant for advanced users who prefer to use OpenMP* as it is implemented by the LLVM community.

NOTE:

Option -fopenmp is not the same as option -fiopenmp. If you want to get full advantage of SIMD vectorization or offloading, you must use option -qopenmp or -fiopenmp.

NOTE:

This option only applies to host compilation. When offloading is enabled, it does not impact device-specific compilation.

IDE Equivalent

None

Alternate Options

None

See Also