From: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski@apple.com>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, "Timothy J. Wood" <tjw@omnigroup.com>
Subject: Re: 3.4 bootstrap failure on powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0F6958AA-4A0F-11D8-BA61-00039390FFE2@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE56BE74-4A0C-11D8-9D69-000393A6D2F2@physics.uc.edu>
On 18 Jan 2004, at 15.18, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2004, at 15:10, Ziemowit Laski 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.
Indeed, except I fail to see why this can't be done at run-time, when
the user specifies '-maltivec'.
--Zem
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-18 23:36 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 [this message]
2004-01-18 23:45 ` Andrew Pinski
2004-01-21 14:56 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-19 20:57 ` Dale Johannesen
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