Intel compiler (C++) issue with OpenMP reduction on std::vector

Question

Since OpenMP 4.0, user-defined reduction is supported. So I defined the reduction on std::vector in C++ exactly from here. It works fine with GNU/5.4.0 and GNU/6.4.0, but it

Answer 1

This appears to be a bug in the Intel compiler, I can reliably reproduce it with a C example not involving vectors:

#include 

void my_sum_fun(int* outp, int* inp) {
    printf("%d @ %p += %d @ %p\n", *outp, outp, *inp, inp);
    *outp = *outp + *inp;
}

int my_init(int* orig) {
    printf("orig: %d @ %p\n", *orig, orig);
    return *orig;
}

#pragma omp declare reduction(my_sum : int : my_sum_fun(&omp_out, &omp_in) initializer(omp_priv = my_init(&omp_orig))

int main()
{   
    int s = 0;
    #pragma omp parallel for reduction(my_sum : s)
    for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
        s+= 1;

    printf("sum: %d\n", s);
}

Output:

orig: 0 @ 0x7ffee43ccc80
0 @ 0x7ffee43ccc80 += 1 @ 0x7ffee43cc780
orig: 1 @ 0x7ffee43ccc80
1 @ 0x7ffee43ccc80 += 2 @ 0x2b56d095ca80
sum: 3

It applies the reduction operation to the original variable before initializing the private copy from the original value. This leads to the wrong result.

You can manually add a barrier as a workaround:

#pragma omp parallel reduction(vec_double_plus : w)
{
  #pragma omp for
  for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i)
    for (int j = 0; j < w.size(); ++j)
      w[j] += 1;
  #pragma omp barrier
}