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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 23:17:20 +0200
From: ardi <ardillasdelmonte@...il.com>
To: ardi <ardillasdelmonte@...il.com>, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Linux distribution for using RISC-V musl?

Really useful!! Thanks a lot!

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 2:24 PM Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> wrote:
>
> * ardi <ardillasdelmonte@...il.com> [2021-04-10 14:08:31 +0200]:
> > Also, I've read that QEMU is able to emulate multicore RISC-V CPUs.
> > Does musl support multicore RISC-V in 64bit? I mean, if I configure a
> > multicore RISC-V in QEMU and I try to build a parallel loop using
> > OpenMP for example, will such loop be parallelized if I'm using musl?
>
> yes.
>
> this has not much to do with the libc though.
> openmp uses pthreads, pthreads uses clone and
> clone is implemented by the os in some way.
> whether things are parallel is not in the hands
> of the libc and the logic is not target dependent,
> the libc works the same way on x86_64 as on riscv.
> there can be target specific synchronization bugs
> in the libc, but those are just bugs.
>

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