Re: Altivec and G4

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:28:22PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > All recent binutils are altivec capable.  I expect that no one will
> > ever package the AltiVec-capable GCC, as it is exceedingly unreliable.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  The binutils are all that is needed.  However, I
> checked on voltaire, and the standard assembler there didn't seem to
> understand the altivec assembly code put out by the altivec gcc,
> whereas the altivec assembler did.  Am I doing something wrong?

Probably you need an option - did you try -m7400?  My reading of
binutils suggests that altivec works by default, however.  What did it
not accept?

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