------- Comment #7 from janis at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-12-12 19:22 ------- The failure goes away with -mabi=altivec, which is not the default with -m32. I had never seen this failure in my earlier testing on powerpc64-linux because whenever I used -maltivec I also used -mabi=altivec. It's not clear to me if it's legitimate to use -maltivec, or -mcpu with machines that imply -maltivec, without also using -mabi=altivec when the code will use AltiVec registers.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34038
