firstprivate

Definition

firstprivate is the clause that contains the variables that each thread in the OpenMP parallel region will have an identical copy of. These copies are initialised with the value of the original variable passed to the clause. By contrast, private variables do not. The other possible data-sharing policies are shared, private, lastprivate and linear.

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firstprivate(list)

Parameters

list: The variables to pass as firstprivate, separated by commas.

Example

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <omp.h>

/**
 * @brief Illustrates the OpenMP firstprivate policy.
 * @details This example shows that when a firstprivate variable is passed to a
 * parallel region, threads work on initialised copies but that whatever
 * modification is made to their copies is not reflected onto the original
 * variable. 
 **/
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    // Use 4 OpenMP threads
    omp_set_num_threads(4);

    // Variable that will be firstprivate
    int val = 123456789;

    printf("Value of \"val\" before the OpenMP parallel region: %d.\n", val);

    #pragma omp parallel firstprivate(val)
    {
        printf("Thread %d sees \"val\" = %d, and updates it to be %d.\n", omp_get_thread_num(), val, omp_get_thread_num());
        val = omp_get_thread_num();
    }

    // Value after the parallel region; unchanged.
    printf("Value of \"val\" after the OpenMP parallel region: %d.\n", val);

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}