OpenMP: Get total number of running threads

Question

I need to know the total number of threads that my application has spawned via OpenMP. Unfortunately, the omp_get_num_threads() function does not w

Answer 1

The code you have shown has a problem in that an "omp section" has to be within the lexical scope of an "omp sections". I am assuming that you meant the "omp parallel" to be an "omp parallel sections". The other way to do this, is to use "omp task" and then you don't have to keep count of the number of threads. You would just assign the threads to the parallel region and allow the OpenMP implementation to assign the tasks to the threads.