powerpc altivec support

[Till Straumann]

Sergei Organov wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> writes:
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:44 -0800, Till Straumann wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>BTW: mno-eabi probably doesn't really have a great impact as this 
>>>effectively only changes the stack alignment. The really interesting thing 
>>>could be  enabling both 'meabi' and 'msdata=eabi'. This would improve 
>>>both, space  *and* speed efficiency.
> 
> 
> Well, -meabi -msdata=eabi (as well as -msdata=default) combination is
> broken in gcc 3.x.

Oops - could you please explain what exactly is broken?

-- T.


> That's why I still use 2.95. The related bug report
> has been closed for gcc 4.0 so maybe they indeed fixed it there, -- I
> didn't try yet.
>