[TESTCASE] Minimized testcase for AltiVec segfault

Alex Rosenberg alexr@spies.com
Wed Feb 27 17:28:00 GMT 2002


on 2/27/02 3:39 PM, Kumar Gala at kumar.gala@motorola.com wrote:

> If GCC is managing VRSAVE when -mabi=altivec then I think there should be
> another flag to disable the use of VRSAVE.  It tends to be a waste of time
> to manage as well as hard to use for determining which regs to save by the
> context code.

"#pragma altivec_vrsave on | off | allon" support would be desirable as
well.

The idea here is to not emit VRSave uses except at an outermost function.

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