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From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>
To: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Allen <gallen@arlut.utexas.edu>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, crossgcc@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: PowerPC G4 AltiVec support for gcc?
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:50:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <387BCFC2.5958CF10@OARcorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200001111958.OAA24314@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com


David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
>         Apple provides a modified version of egcs-1.1.2 with AltiVec
> support.  The changes have not been assigned back to the FSF for inclusion
> in the GCC public sources.  The source code at the Apple website
> apparently only builds on Mac OS X.
> 
>         http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/projects.html
> 
> See "egcs-2" at the bottom, not "cctools-295-2" (nor cc-783.1-1).

If all he wants is inline assembly why does gcc have to be Altivec
aware?
Isn't it enough for the assembler to recognize the instructions?

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      reply	other threads:[~2000-01-12  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-11 19:13 PowerPC G4 AltiVec support for gcc? Greg Allen
2000-01-11 19:58 ` David Edelsohn
2000-01-12  0:50   ` Joel Sherrill [this message]

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