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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Ziemowit Laski <zlaski@apple.com>,
	"Timothy J. Wood" <tjw@omnigroup.com>
Subject: Re: 3.4 bootstrap failure on powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <08D310BB-4B82-11D8-BDF1-000A95A4DC02@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE56BE74-4A0C-11D8-9D69-000393A6D2F2@physics.uc.edu>

On 19-jan-04, at 0:18, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>>> --enable-altivec is really only for ppc linux to enable the altivec 
>>> ABI by default which is
>>> done for PPC Darwin by default already.
>
>> Actually, in the course of my recent AltiVec struggles, I failed to 
>> discover any purpose whatsoever for the '--enable-altivec' config 
>> switch -- perhaps Aldy can enlighten us.
>
> Doing a simple search using google, I found when this was added:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-12/msg02123.html
>
> It is exactly does what I said it does is to change the ABI by default.

Another way to do this is to configure for a 
powerpc-whatever-linux-gnualtivec
target.  Maybe this second way should go?


Segher

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-18  4:39 Timothy J. Wood
2004-01-18 16:07 ` Andrew Pinski
2004-01-18 19:27   ` Timothy J. Wood
2004-01-18 23:11   ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-01-18 23:18     ` Andrew Pinski
2004-01-18 23:36       ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-01-18 23:45         ` Andrew Pinski
2004-01-21 14:56       ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2004-01-19 20:57 ` Dale Johannesen

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