Re: <altivec.h> not happy with 3.4 on powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0

["Timothy J. Wood" <tjw at omnigroup dot com>]

  Andrew Pinski's patch  
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg01808.html> fixed  
particular the problem I was having.  I'm not qualified to say whether  
your patch might fix other issues I'll find later, though :)

-tim



On Jan 18, 2004, at 3:22 PM, Ziemowit Laski wrote:

> Tim,
>
> I have a patch that fixes this issue, among with many others.  Alas,  
> no one has deigned to review it, much less approve it:
>
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg01111.html
>
> --Zem
>
> On 18 Jan 2004, at 11.31, Timothy J. Wood wrote:
>
> > Configured thusly:
> >
> > 	../gcc/configure --prefix="$PREFIX" --enable-languages="c,c++,objc"
> >
> > Compiling just:
> >
> > 	#include <altivec.h>
> >
> > with:
> >
> > 	$PREFIX/bin/c++ -O3 -maltivec x.cpp -S -o x.s
> >
> > yields zillions of errors of the form:
> >
> > In file included from x.cpp:2:
> > /Volumes/Space/Users/bungi/Source-head/GNU/gcc/gcc-3.4/install/bin/ 
> > ../lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/3.4.0/include/altivec.h:124:  
> > error: declaration of C function `float __vector__ vec_ctf(int  
> > __vector__, char)' conflicts with
> > /Volumes/Space/Users/bungi/Source-head/GNU/gcc/gcc-3.4/install/bin/ 
> > ../lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/3.4.0/include/altivec.h:123:  
> > error: previous declaration `float __vector__ vec_ctf(unsigned int  
> > __vector__, char)' here
> > ...
> >
> >
> > -tim