altivec is not the only simd arch

[Daniel Egger]

Am Mon, 2002-05-20 um 04.10 schrieb Aldy Hernandez:

> i just noticed that there are a few places scattered throughout
> that we wrongly assume vectors are always altivec vectors.  this isn't
> necessarily so, especially since i'm working on another non-altivec
> simd architecture for the powerpc ;-).

Care to share what it might be?
 
> also, i have some in-the-works patches for allowing backends to use
> the vector modes (V4SI, V2SI, etc) without actually having hardware
> support for them.

So you have code in the works to compile altivec code by generating
non-SIMD instructions?

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel