PowerPC G4 AltiVec support for gcc?

[Joel Sherrill]

David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
>         Apple provides a modified version of egcs-1.1.2 with AltiVec
> support.  The changes have not been assigned back to the FSF for inclusion
> in the GCC public sources.  The source code at the Apple website
> apparently only builds on Mac OS X.
> 
>         http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/projects.html
> 
> See "egcs-2" at the bottom, not "cctools-295-2" (nor cc-783.1-1).

If all he wants is inline assembly why does gcc have to be Altivec
aware?
Isn't it enough for the assembler to recognize the instructions?

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