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Re: pass -maltivec to assembler

To: degger at fhm dot edu
Subject: Re: pass -maltivec to assembler
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:30:10 -0500
Cc: aldyh at redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <1005258830.13992.141.camel@litecycle.cc.andrews.edu> <20011109224212.DB31A9C2F@Nicole.fhm.edu>

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:42:54PM +0100, degger@fhm.edu wrote:
> On  8 Nov, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> 
> > patch to send -maltivec to assembler.
> 
> Why would you want to do that? The right option for as from the binutils
> around version 2.11.90.0.27 is -m7400 (undocumented) while -maltivec is
> unknown.

-maltivec is more correct.  You don't want to enforce -m7400; there can
be other processors, like the 7410/7450, which have Altivec also.  IMO,
at least, this is cleaner.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

References:
- pass -maltivec to assembler
  - From: Aldy Hernandez
- Re: pass -maltivec to assembler
  - From: degger

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