From: Adrian Cox <apc@agelectronics.co.uk>
To: Greg Allen <gallen@arlut.utexas.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: AltiVec on Linux
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:42:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38C77216.411270A2@agelectronics.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: v04011708b4ec4b0ae554@[129.116.196.236]
Greg Allen wrote:
> It's not a "Linux" compiler -- it's strictly a cross-compiler. It creates
> the toolset "powerpc-eabisim-*". The binaries that it generates do not run
> on Linux.
Take the compiler patches, apply to the compiler source for LinuxPPC,
configure, make. This should work, though I've only done it on Debian.
> Unfortunately, powerpc-eabisim-g++ doesn't recognize "vector" at all.
> That's right, boys and girls, NO C++ SUPPORT WITH ALTIVEC!
For C++ use the keyword __vector.
This is documented in the Altivec Programming Interface Manual, which
can be found at:
http://www.altivec.org/tech_specifications/altivec_pim.pdf
It's not pretty, but it is in the manual.
- Adrian Cox, AG Electronics
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-09 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-08 18:59 AltiVec on Linux Greg Allen
2000-03-08 20:26 ` jrosenau
2000-03-09 9:42 ` Adrian Cox [this message]
2000-03-22 18:46 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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