Re: Altivec support in gcc
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:26, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> A colleague is trying to get the distributed.net client in Linux to use
> Altivec with a 7451 G4 CPU. I understand that when we build the program,
> our version of gcc needs to support altivec (?) (I know nothing of
> this).. is that right? We use gcc 2.95.3, would it support altivec, is
> there any way to check? I assume if it did, it needs to be enabled when
> the gcc is built.
Disclaimer: I'm not really an expert in this area, someone please
correct me if I'm talking nonsense. :)
As I understand it, the gcc vector extensions are only usable in gcc 3.2
(maybe 3.1), and you'd have to rebuild everything down to glibc with
-mabi=altivec if you want to use that. Maybe you rather want to use
Altivec inline assembly, which works independently from the compiler.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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