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Updated GCC Patches For OpenMP Unified Shared Memory On AMD & NVIDIA GPUs


Two years after originally posting patches for working on Unified Shared Memory (USM) support for OpenMP with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), there is finally an updated patch-set for implementing this shared memory functionality with both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs.

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