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Re: GCC/powerpc AltiVec expectations.
- From: Alex Rosenberg <alexr at spies dot com>
- To: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, Matt Thomas <matt at 3am-software dot com>
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, egcs <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Kumar Gala <kumar dot gala at motorola dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:46:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC/powerpc AltiVec expectations.
on 7/2/02 10:32 AM, Aldy Hernandez at aldyh@redhat.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:52:46AM -0700, Alex Rosenberg wrote:
>> on 7/2/02 7:43 AM, Aldy Hernandez at aldyh@redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>> vrsave generation is on by default in gcc, though since the minority
>>> OS need it, it should be switched to off.
>>
>> "Minority?"
>
> linux doesn't need it.
>
> i believe macos x doesn't need it.
Mac OS X requires it.
on 7/2/02 10:36 AM, Matt Thomas at matt@3am-software.com wrote:
> NetBSD won't need it either. I assume OpenBSD/FreeBSD will just reuse
> the NetBSD code so they probably won't either.
I thought Matthew Green once mentioned VRSAVE support for NetBSD to me, but
I can't find a reference to that from the port-powerpc@netbsd.org list.
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