Darwin is all-AltiVec all the time

Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
Mon Dec 17 11:19:00 GMT 2001


Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> writes:
> 
>  > Darwin's PowerPC ABI is permanently wired for AltiVec, also add an
> 
> You're a braver man than I.

Not that much bravery - without it the stack frames are incompat
with the rest of the system, and simple examples fail with
mysterious ICEs.

>  > additional predefine.  Bootstrapped on powerpc-apple-darwin1.4.
> 
> Woh, it bootstraps?

Not with -maltivec, as per my other comment.

> Btw, do you have an update on the vector initializers-- which i hope
> will make it in for 3.1 as a "bugfix" since altivec will be completely
> useless without them :)

Just about ready to submit.

Stan



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