Altivec support in gcc

[Ross Vumbaca <rossv1@optushome.com.au>]

Hi,

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.

Thanks,

Regards,

Ross..