Re: Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-19 Thread Guillaume Morin
Dans un message du 18 fév à 22:33, Daniel Jacobowitz écrivait : > That's not what the phrase from the info docs (GCC's info docs, not > glibc's) is trying to say; it's trying to say it doesn't change to > (say) the EABI ABI instead of the SysV one. Ok, sorry for the confusion. > That said, I -thi

Re: Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:42:13AM +0100, Guillaume Morin wrote: > Dans un message du 18 Feb à 13:33, Michel Dänzer écrivait : > > 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 y

Re: Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-18 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Guillaume Morin wrote: You also need to build the program with -maltivec. Re: gcc-3.2 not found - sorry I just found out why. I didn't realise that "testing" packages were in the main pool area as well. Regards, Ross..

Re: Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-18 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Guillaume Morin wrote: 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. No, you don't need to rebuild glibc to use gcc vector extensions. Indeed -mabi=alti

Re: Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-18 Thread Guillaume Morin
Dans un message du 18 Feb à 13:33, Michel Dänzer écrivait : > 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. No, you don't need to rebuild glibc to use gcc vec

Re: Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-18 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Michel Dänzer wrote: 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).

Re: Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
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

Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-17 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, 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