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OpenMP has been quickly evolving to meet the insatiable demand for productive parallel programming on high performance computing systems. Creating a robust and optimizing OpenMP compiler has become increasingly challenging due to the expanding capabilities and complexity of OpenMP, especially for its latest 5.0 release. Although OpenMP’s syntax and semantics are very similar between C/C++ and Fortran, the corresponding compiler support, such as parsing and lowering are often separately implemented, which is a significant obstacle to support the fast changing OpenMP specification. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a standalone and unified OpenMP parser, named ompparser, for both C/C++ and Fortran. ompparser is designed to be useful both as an independent tool and an integral component of an OpenMP compiler. It can be used for syntax and semantics checking of OpenMP constructs, validating and verifying the usage of existing constructs, and helping to prototype new constructs. The formal grammar included in ompparser also helps interpretation of the OpenMP standard. The ompparser implementation supports the latest OpenMP 5.0, including complex directives such as metadirective. It is released as open-source from https://github.com/passlab/ompparser with a BSD-license. We also demonstrate how it is integrated with the ROSE’s open-source OpenMP compiler.
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This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344, and supported by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (SC-21), under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. LLNL-CONF-774801. This material is also based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1833332 and 1652732.
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Wang, A., Shi, Y., Yi, X., Yan, Y., Liao, C., de Supinski, B.R. (2019). Ompparser: A Standalone and Unified OpenMP Parser. In: Fan, X., de Supinski, B., Sinnen, O., Giacaman, N. (eds) OpenMP: Conquering the Full Hardware Spectrum. IWOMP 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11718. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28596-8_10
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