Darwin (unlike most of the members of the PowerPC port family) defaults to signed chars, so the test was failing to compile with a "mismatched parameters" error.
tested on powerpc-darwin9, powerpc-linux-gnu applied to mainline thanks Iain 2019-06-23 Iain Sandoe <i...@sandoe.co.uk> * gcc.target/powerpc/pr80125.c (foo): Use an unsigned char vector explicitly for the vec_perm. diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/powerpc/pr80125.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/powerpc/pr80125.c index 494a6e6..366602d 100644 --- a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/powerpc/pr80125.c +++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/powerpc/pr80125.c @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ foo () vector int k = vec_mergel (i, j); vector int l = vec_sl (k, c); vector int m = vec_sl (l, d); - vector char o; + vector unsigned char o; vector int p = vec_perm (m, n, o); e = vec_sra (p, c); vec_st (e, 0, a);