thread in contiguous place partitions. And with 'SPREAD' a sparse distribution across the place partitions is used. Specifying more than one item in the list will automatically enable nesting by default. When undefined, 'OMP_PROC_BIND' defaults to 'TRUE' when 'OMP_PLACES' or 'GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY' is set and 'FALSE' otherwise. _See also_: *note omp_get_proc_bind::, *note GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY::, *note OMP_NESTED::, *note OMP_PLACES:: _Reference_: OpenMP specification v4.5 (https://www.openmp.org), Section 4.4