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Re: PPC G4 "Velocity Engine" supported
- To: Rolf Schneider <rolf at sci-d-vis dot com>
- Subject: Re: PPC G4 "Velocity Engine" supported
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 26 Jul 2001 20:25:04 -0300
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <3B5DFFB5.17047C0@sci-d-vis.com>
On Jul 24, 2001, Rolf Schneider <rolf@sci-d-vis.com> wrote:
> http://www.apple.com/powermac/processor.html
> ...basically, this CPU seems to support some special floating-point
> vector extensions. Are these extensions supported by g++ in some way?
I don't think the altivec support has even been contributed. I seem
to recall someone is working on it. Search the gcc@ mailing list
archives of the past few weeks, if you're interested.
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