problem building GCC on PowerPC wiht AltiVec enabled

Franz Sirl Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com
Tue Jul 23 06:15:00 GMT 2002


At 11:29 23.07.2002, Alan Modra wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:11:40PM +0300, Ilan Finci wrote:
> > /tmp/ccCpQ6Cz.s: Assembler messages:
> > /tmp/ccCpQ6Cz.s:3242: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mfvrsave'
> >
> > Any idea what am I missing?
>
>Your assembler is too old.  See http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/
>for instructions on getting new source.

BTW, what I'm still unsure about is the binary compatibility between code 
compiled with -mno-altivec-abi and -maltivec-abi. Do the different values 
for STACK_BOUNDARY and ABI_STACK_BOUNDARY create a compatibility problem?

Franz.



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