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From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
To: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski@apple.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>,
	"Timothy J. Wood" <tjw@omnigroup.com>
Subject: Re: 3.4 bootstrap failure on powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AE56BE74-4A0C-11D8-9D69-000393A6D2F2@physics.uc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8B769259-4A0B-11D8-BA61-00039390FFE2@apple.com>

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.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-18 23:18 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 [this message]
2004-01-18 23:36       ` Ziemowit Laski
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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