On 8 Oct, this message from David Schleef echoed through cyberspace: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:08:27AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I've uploaded a new Altivec-enabled version of vlc (built from the >> > 20011004 snapshot). It is available here: >> >> Wow you are a genius :):):)
Go slowly ;-) I hardly compiled the debs, that's all. Thank Michel Lespinasse (mpeg2dec)and Christophe Massiot (videolan team). OK, I helped them debug the stuff, but that's all. >> How did you manage to get those nasty old >> Altivec tools to work on a recent Linux? Or did you x-compile from MacOS >> X? > > Binutils is already altivec enabled, and there are no problems > assembling source. Debian's gcc-2.95 does not have the altivec > intrisics patch applied by default, and for a good reason, since > it fails compiling anything that is remotely non-trivial. > Nevertheless, I keep an altivec-enabled gcc around because it is > about 1000 times faster than me at converting altivec intrinsics > into well-scheduled instructions. I use that to convert to assembly, > fix up the assembly, and then use the assembly as the source. That seems to be the way most people do. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
