# GAP Message (Diagnostic ID 30519)

### Note

This feature is only available for ifort.

## Message

Insert a "%s parallel" statement right before the loop at line %d to parallelize the loop.

## Advice

Add "!DIR$ PARALLEL" before the specified loop. This directive enables the parallelization of the loop at the specified line by ignoring assumed cross-iteration data dependencies.

## Example

Consider the following:

    subroutine foo(a, m, n)
      real a(n)
      do i=1,n
        a(i) = a(i+m) + 1
      enddo
    end

In this case, the compiler is unable to parallelize the loop without further information about m. For example, if m is negative, then each iteration will be dependent on the previous iteration. However, if m is known to be greater than n, you can parallelize the loop.

If you determine it is safe to do so, you can add the directive as follows:

    subroutine foo(a, m, n)
      real a(n)
    !dir$ parallel
      do i=1,n
        a(i) = a(i+m) + 1
      enddo
    end

## Verify

Confirm that any arrays in the loop do not have cross-iteration dependencies. A cross-iteration dependency exists if a memory location is modified in an iteration of the loop and accessed by a fetch or store operation in another iteration of the loop.

Parent topic: Guided Auto Parallelism Messages