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Re: [PATCH]: Enable use of AltiVec regs for simd-2.C
- From: Hartmut Penner <HPENNER at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: dje <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, Segher Boessenkool <BOESSEN at de dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:35:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Enable use of AltiVec regs for simd-2.C
Aldy wrote:
> Won't this test fail on ppc64-linux systems without altivec?
That's the signal handler for. It setup a SIGILL signal handler
and executes a vor r0,r0,r0. On ppc64-linux systems without
AltiVec this causes a sigill signal, which does a exit(0).
Hartmut