Altivec tools?

[Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>]

Hi all,

Anybody have a quick step guide to working with Altivec under
Debian for PPC? Any .debs (doubt it)?

I'm trying to make use of vlc's Altivec-accelerated IDCT (which so far
is only meant for MacOS X and doesn't work), so I obviously need an
Altivec-enabled toolchain.

I've had a look at altivec.org; their tools seem to be relatively old.
Is that still the best bet? Are the new gcc-3.0 tools Altivec-enabled?

Any gotchas I should know about?

Thanks

Michel

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