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Re: [TESTCASE] Minimized testcase for AltiVec segfault
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- To: aldyh at redhat dot com
- Cc: kumar dot gala at motorola dot com, degger at fhm dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, dje at watson dot ibm dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:05:06 -0800
- Subject: Re: [TESTCASE] Minimized testcase for AltiVec segfault
- References: <33E22202-2BF3-11D6-87D4-000393750C1E@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:00 +1100
> Cc: kumar.gala@motorola.com, degger@fhm.edu, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
> dje@watson.ibm.com
> From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
>
> >> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:14:34 +1100
> >> Cc: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>, GCC Developer Mailinglist
> >> <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
> >> David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>, Geoff Keating
> >> <geoffk@geoffk.org>
> >> From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
> >
> >> ahhhctually, i motion we get rid of -mabi=altivec and have -maltivec
> >> imply an abi enhancement. unless geoff/david or someone else can
> >> think of a reason not to.
> >
> > No, don't do that. I can think of lots of reasons not to.
>
> care to share?
You'd be deleting a feature, and worse, you'd be re-using the obvious
choice for the option that enables that feature for something
different, making it difficult to re-introduce that feature in future.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>