>>>>> Janis Johnson writes: Janis> I have a patch, written since this thread started, that saves and Janis> restores AltiVec registers based on TARGET_ALTIVEC instead of Janis> TARGET_ALTIVEC_ABI. It passes gcc.target/powerpc tests and 176.gcc Janis> with "-O3 -maltivec -mabi=no-altivec". I'll post that soon and do Janis> full bootstrap/regtest.
That is not what -maltivec is suppose to control. David