Does altivec work on biarch compiler for gcc 3.3.3-hammer?

[davis]

Hello Segher,

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:39:17AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >Does altivec work with gcc 3.3.3 hammer?
>
> Yes.
>
> >I'm building  with -maltivec and -mabi=altivec but it does not seem to
> >work
> >for simple programs.  For instance,
> >
> >	printf("%vc",(vector unsigned char) {'h','e','l','l','o'});
>
> Not valid code.  A vector initializer has either one, or exactly
> the correct number of elements (i.e., for char, 16 elts).

Thanks that is good to know.  However, I was a little sloppy with my
rewrite.  I actually did use all the slots in the vector as they do
in the velocity engine tutorial.  ie. hello world 1234.  My main
point was below.

>
> >Will print:
> >
> > 	%vc
>
> glibc doesn't support vector printf extensions.  Political issue.

That's good to know.  I won't try to get that stuff working anymore.

>
> >Here is how I am building:
> >
> >	gcc -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 testy.c
>
> -mtune is redundant; looks fine otherwise.

That is also good to know.  Many thanks.


>
>
> Segher
>

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