libgomp/doc/introduction.rst

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   4   Copyright 1988-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5   This is part of the GCC manual.
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   8 Introduction
   9 ============
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  13 This manual documents the usage of libgomp, the GNU Offloading and
  14 Multi Processing Runtime Library.  This includes the GNU
  15 implementation of the `OpenMP <https://www.openmp.org>`_ Application
  16 Programming Interface (API) for multi-platform shared-memory parallel
  17 programming in C/C++ and Fortran, and the GNU implementation of the
  18 `OpenACC <https://www.openacc.org>`_ Application Programming
  19 Interface (API) for offloading of code to accelerator devices in C/C++
  20 and Fortran.
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  22 Originally, libgomp implemented the GNU OpenMP Runtime Library.  Based
  23 on this, support for OpenACC and offloading (both OpenACC and OpenMP
  24 4's target construct) has been added later on, and the library's name
  25 changed to GNU Offloading and Multi Processing Runtime Library.