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Re: altivec triplets: comments?
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0100, degger@fhm.edu wrote:
> On 18 Nov, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> > In this case, wouldn't it make sense for powerpc-linux-gnualtivec be
> > spelled powerpcaltivec-linux-gnu? Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to
> > do something like powerpc-linux-gnulibc2.2.
>
> What's wrong about altivec-linux-gnu? IIRC AltiVec is only available for
> "powerpc" so this tripplet would imply powerpc and be easier to remember
> and type for sure.
The problem with both of these is existing configury;
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnualtivec should "just work", which is nice.
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