c++ - Parallel OpenMP loop with break statement

Question

I know that you cannot have a break statement for an OpenMP loop, but I was wondering if there is any workaround while still the benefiting from parallelism. Basically I have 'for' loop, that loops through the elements of a large vector looking for one element that satisfies a certain condition. However there is only one element that will satisfy the condition so once that is found we can break out of the loop, Thanks in advance

for(int i = 0; i <= 100000; ++i)
  {
    if(element[i] ...)
     {
          ....
          break;
      }
   }

Answer 1

See this snippet:

volatile bool flag=false;

#pragma omp parallel for shared(flag)
for(int i=0; i<=100000; ++i)
{    
    if(flag) continue;
    if(element[i] ...)
    {
          ...
          flag=true;
    }
}

This situation is more suitable for pthread.