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. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
