Re: [Starpu-devel] StarPU gcc plugin not building

[ludovic.courtes@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès)]

Miguel Palhas <mpalhas@gmail.com> skribis:

> Now, this might raise a problem for my project. Will i have any trouble if
> i compile the kernels separately as C code with gcc, but invoke them within
> C++ code?

No.  Just make sure to declare the C functions within an ‘extern "C"’ block.

> Also, are these issues just specific to the plugin version? if required, i
> might just have use the API version, as long as it is more stable

Yes, these issues are caused by the GCC plug-in.

> And by the way, should i expect the same performance between both versions
> (Plugin and API)?

Yes.  However, the C extensions supported by the plug-in are less
expressive than the C API, and you may find that you need some of the
features available in the API and not as C extensions, such as data
partitioning.

Ludo’.