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Re: Altivec Linux support in GCC

From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
To: Kumar Gala <kumar dot gala at motorola dot com>
Cc: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, Michel LESPINASSE <walken at zoy dot org>, GCC Mailinglist <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:44:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Altivec Linux support in GCC

Sounds like a good idea.  I think when this all originally went in,
we were being cautious and incremental - -maltivec would always work,
but -mabi=altivec required cooperating libraries and such.  However,
I think we're past that initial phase now!

Ok, I will come up with a patch for review.

I guess this is my concern, especially with -mabi=no-altivec not being very well specified to the user. It is not clear at all as to what a user gets with this option as far as AltiVec support goes.

I will document this as well. This is causing far too much confusion.

Aldy

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