STL algorithms and concurrent programming

Question

Can any of STL algorithms/container operations like std::fill, std::transform be executed in parallel if I enable OpenMP for my compiler? I am working with

Answer 1

Current C++ standards don't talk about threads at all, so no. Here is more or less original statement about STL thread safety.

Edit:

Look at one common (GCC) implementation of std::fill:

template
  void
  fill(_ForwardIter __first, _ForwardIter __last, const _Tp& __value)
  {
      for ( ; __first != __last; ++__first)
          *__first = __value; 
  }

It's obvious that it's not safe for parallel execution (which would require specialized implementation.)

And here is GCC extension for Parallel Mode.