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Re: altivec patches

To: drow at mvista dot com
Subject: Re: altivec patches
From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 02:35:38 -0800
CC: aldyh at redhat dot com, dalej at apple dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <374D0C66-D239-11D5-AEDD-003065C86F94@apple.com> <m3zo60ljbs.fsf@litecycle.cc.andrews.edu> <20011106191203.A28910@nevyn.them.org>
Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>

> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:12:03 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> Cc: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>, gcc patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
>         Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

> Is there any reasonable way to reflect that in the generated objects,
> then?  Is there a spare bit in the ELF header for this?

You can create a special .note section.  Using bits in the ELF header
for this is not recommended; consider the problems it causes on MIPS for
instance.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>

References:
- Re: altivec patches
  - From: Dale Johannesen
- Re: altivec patches
  - From: Aldy Hernandez
- Re: altivec patches
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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