omp parallel vs. omp parallel for

Question

What is the difference between these two?

[A]

#pragma omp parallel
{ 
    #pragma omp for
    for(int i = 1; i < 100; ++i)
    {
        ...
    }
}

[B]

#pragma omp parallel for
for(int i = 1; i < 100; ++i)
{
   ...
}

Answer 1

I don't think there is any difference, one is a shortcut for the other. Although your exact implementation might deal with them differently.

The combined parallel worksharing constructs are a shortcut for specifying a parallel construct containing one worksharing construct and no other statements. Permitted clauses are the union of the clauses allowed for the parallel and worksharing contructs.

Taken from http://www.openmp.org/mp-documents/OpenMP3.0-SummarySpec.pdf

The specs for OpenMP are here:

https://openmp.org/specifications/