gcc & g4 processor?

[Mike Stump]

> Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 11:28:48 -0400
> From: adam morley <axm135@po.cwru.edu>
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org

> so i was looking @ apples website, specifically what compiler they
> include with the now shipping Mac OS X.  its gcc 2.95.2.  it has a
> special option -faltivec to compile with altivec enhancements.

> is this included in regular download of gcc from one of the mirrors?

No, that work isn't important enough in the eyes of the people that
did the work to have submitted it back yet.  In time, maybe someone
will do this.  (I'd be happy to be corrected on this point.)

> ie, can i put it on linux ppc, openbsd, whatever, compile it and get
> that action?

If you use the modified compiler, yes.