gcc-11 + project/gomp: OpenMP status update
* htdocs/gcc-11/changes.html (languages): Add another newly
supported clause: device_type.
* htdocs/projects/gomp/index.html: Mention offloading support; add
post-2015 news items.
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ a work-in-progress.</p>
For Fortran, OpenMP 4.5 is now finally fully supported and OpenMP 5.0
support has been extended, including the following features which were
before only available in C and C++: <code>order(concurrent)</code>,
+ <code>device_type</code>,
<code>lastprivate</code> with <code>conditional</code> modifier,
<code>if</code> clause with <code>simd</code> and <code>cancel</code>
modifiers, <code>target data</code> without <code>map</code> clause,
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ environments. Using OpenMP's directive-based parallelism also
simplifies the act of converting existing serial code to
efficient parallel code.</p>
+<p>OpenMP additionally permits to offload computations on
+accelerators such as <abbr title="Graphical Processing Units">GPUs</abbr>,
+making use of their highly parallel computation support; if
+no accelarator is available, as fallback, the computation is
+then done on the host.</p>
+
<h2>Project goal</h2>
<p>To remain relevant, free software development tools must
support emerging technologies. By implementing OpenMP, GOMP
@@ -63,6 +69,40 @@ available.</p>
<h2>Status</h2>
<dl>
+<dt><b>August 20, 2020</b></dt>
+<dd><p><a href="https://www.openmp.org/wp-content/uploads/openmp-TR9.pdf">OpenMP
+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 "../../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
+<code>use_device_addr</code> clauses support, <code>if</code> clause on
+<code>simd</code> construct or partial support for the
+<code>declare variant</code> directive, getting closer to full support
+of the OpenMP 5.0 standard.</p></dd>
+
+<dt><b>May 3, 2019</b></dt>
+<dd><p><a "https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-9/">GCC 9 has been released</a> and
+version 5.0 of the OpenMP specification is now partially supported in the C
+and C++ compilers.</p></dd>
+
+<dt><b>November 8, 2018</b></dt>
+<dd><p>The <a href="https://www.openmp.org/specifications/">OpenMP v5.0</a>
+specification has been released.</p></dd>
+
+<dt><b>May 2, 2017</b></dt>
+<dd><p><a "https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/">GCC 7 has been released</a> and
+version 4.5 of the OpenMP specification is now partially supported in the
+Fortran compiler; the largest missing item is structure element
+mapping.</p></dd>
+
+<dt><b>April 27, 2016</b></dt>
+<dd><p><a "https://gcc.gnu.org/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>
+
<dt><b>November 14, 2015</b></dt>
<dd><p>The final <a
href="https://www.openmp.org/wp-content/uploads/openmp-4.5.pdf">OpenMP v4.5</a>