Altivec - declaring variables named vec_madd and vec_vmaddfp

[Aldy Hernandez]

>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

 > I've got a test case here that expects
 > #include <altivec.h>

 > /* variables with external-linkage */
 > extern int vec_madd;
 > extern short vec_vmaddfp;

Don't do that.

 > 1) Do we care?  This test suite is pretty old, dating from the time
 >    when vec_madd and vec_vmaddfp were built in functions by those
 >    names, and you didn't even have to include altivec.h.

Not at all.

 > 2) If we do care, what do we do about it?

We don't ;-).

Aldy