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Re: [Bug target/14960] -maltivec affects vector return with -mabi=no-altivec
- From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Hartmut Penner <HPENNER at de dot ibm dot com>, Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>, geoffk at geoffk dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:11:24 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Bug target/14960] -maltivec affects vector return with -mabi=no-altivec
- References: <OF18711F0E.08437833-ONC1256E7B.0052071C-C1256E7B.005250E1@de.ibm.com> <87k70cgdqo.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
> Does it ever make sense for TARGET_ALTIVEC_ABI to be true when
> TARGET_ALTIVEC is false? If not, why not force the former off when
> the latter is not set? Then code need only check the one.
I believe Geoff had objections to doing so. IIRC, an ABI change
shouldn't imply an ISA change, and vice versa.
Geoff?