[Cython] Cython 0.17 beta 3 released - release candidate

[Stefan Behnel]

Christoph Gohlke, 27.08.2012 18:05:
> On 8/27/2012 2:42 AM, mark florisson wrote:
>> On 27 August 2012 01:39, Christoph Gohlke wrote:
>>> On my system, the following patch fixes all the lastprivate related test
>>> errors and does not have any side effects on other tests. It removes the
>>> additional initialization of the target index after `#pragma omp parallel`:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/Nodes.py b/Cython/Compiler/Nodes.py
>>> index 188de3d..5ba0eee 100644
>>> --- a/Cython/Compiler/Nodes.py
>>> +++ b/Cython/Compiler/Nodes.py
>>> @@ -7627,7 +7627,7 @@ class ParallelRangeNode(ParallelStatNode):
>>>           # target index uninitialized
>>>           code.putln("if (%(nsteps)s > 0)" % fmt_dict)
>>>           code.begin_block() # if block
>>> -        code.putln("%(target)s = 0;" % fmt_dict)
>>>           self.generate_loop(code, fmt_dict)
>>>           code.end_block() # end if block
>>>
>>> I'm down to one remaining test failure on win32-py2.7
>>
>> Thanks, that's useful. Could you make a pull request? Maybe because
>> the entry to the parallel loop has no barrier the assignment comes
>> after the lastprivate? I'm not sure how that's possible, I would
>> expect the lastprivate to be executed after the barrier by the highest
>> ranking thread, so there would be no race. Maybe the last thread is
>> slow, and doesn't get any iterations, and assigns the firstprivate
>> value? Anyway, if it fixes stuff it's great :)
>>
>> I think the patch should then also remove the firstprivate() clause,
>> since that variable wouldn't be initialized. It was only there to make
>> compiler warnings to away.
>>
>> Mark
> 
> I opened a pull request. Let's discuss it there.
> 
> <https://github.com/cython/cython/pull/145>

Mark, could you comment on the pull request and/or merge it then?

Stefan