From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17234 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2004 14:56:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 17227 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2004 14:56:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mtagate1.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.150) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2004 14:56:31 -0000 Received: from d12relay02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12relay02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.196]) by mtagate1.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0LEuUpS106610; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:56:30 GMT Received: from d12ml045.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12relay02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i0LEuSgZ267378; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:56:29 +0100 Received: from [9.152.222.71] ([9.152.222.71]) by d12ml045.de.ibm.com (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.9a) with ESMTP id 2004012115562362:1254 ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:56:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <4D4D1AE6-4970-11D8-8B22-0003933F3BC2@omnigroup.com> <759F3C13-49D0-11D8-9D69-000393A6D2F2@physics.uc.edu> <8B769259-4A0B-11D8-BA61-00039390FFE2@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Message-Id: <08D310BB-4B82-11D8-BDF1-000A95A4DC02@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Ziemowit Laski , "Timothy J. Wood" From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: 3.4 bootstrap failure on powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:56:00 -0000 To: Andrew Pinski Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01646.txt.bz2 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