[TESTCASE] Minimized testcase for AltiVec segfault

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Wed Feb 27 19:22:00 GMT 2002


> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:00 +1100
> Cc: kumar.gala@motorola.com, degger@fhm.edu, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
>    dje@watson.ibm.com
> From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
> 
> >> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:14:34 +1100
> >> Cc: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>, GCC Developer Mailinglist 
> >> <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
> >>    David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>, Geoff Keating 
> >> <geoffk@geoffk.org>
> >> From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
> >
> >> ahhhctually, i motion we get rid of -mabi=altivec and have -maltivec
> >> imply an abi enhancement.  unless geoff/david or someone else can
> >> think of a reason not to.
> >
> > No, don't do that.  I can think of lots of reasons not to.
> 
> care to share?

You'd be deleting a feature, and worse, you'd be re-using the obvious
choice for the option that enables that feature for something
different, making it difficult to re-introduce that feature in future.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>



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