This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: GCC for Mac OS X
- To: shebs at apple dot com
- Subject: Re: GCC for Mac OS X
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 21:29:50 +0100
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <38A49C87.6A185949@apple.com>
Stan Shebs wrote:
[ An apple a day keeps the doctor away :-) ]
> 3. PowerPC code quality. Apple has more than a few bit-twiddling
> graphics engineers who pore over inner loops and such. They need
> the compiler to generate faster code. Exception handling and
> AltiVec support are two specific areas; for instance, Apple is
> using a big hairy patch from Motorola for AltiVec code gen, but
> from what I've seen of the patch so far, it seems problematic
> for mainstream GCC.
Well, how about hacking on that patch until it looks reasonable ? Aside
from your graphics engineers, us physicists are very much interested in
a g77 generating vector arithmetic on a home computer (or even a laptop
- if Apple ever manages to put a G4 in a PowerBook ;-)
Cheers,
--
Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl)
Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286
GNU Fortran: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html