GCC/powerpc AltiVec expectations.

[Alex Rosenberg]

on 7/2/02 10:32 AM, Aldy Hernandez at aldyh@redhat.com wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:52:46AM -0700, Alex Rosenberg wrote:
>> on 7/2/02 7:43 AM, Aldy Hernandez at aldyh@redhat.com wrote:
>> 
>>> vrsave generation is on by default in gcc, though since the minority
>>> OS need it, it should be switched to off.
>> 
>> "Minority?"
> 
> linux doesn't need it.
> 
> i believe macos x doesn't need it.

Mac OS X requires it.


on 7/2/02 10:36 AM, Matt Thomas at matt@3am-software.com wrote:
> NetBSD won't need it either.  I assume OpenBSD/FreeBSD will just reuse
> the NetBSD code so they probably won't either.

I thought Matthew Green once mentioned VRSAVE support for NetBSD to me, but
I can't find a reference to that from the port-powerpc@netbsd.org list.

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