Altivec Linux support in GCC

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Kumar Gala writes:

Kumar> I'm not sure I follow.  If you have two versions (one w/altivec & one w/o)
Kumar> what effect does it have if you where to enable the -mabi=altivec option?
Kumar> It would not seem to change anything else.  It should only effect the
Kumar> generation of AltiVec related code.  Maybe I'm missing something here.

	Look at the GCC sources.  Stack boundary.  VRSAVE.  Altivec
arguments. 

David