[PATCH] Accept Altivec instructions when using -mpower6 and -mcell

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 30 23:00:00 GMT 2008


> Lastly, after attempting to move the POWER4 gas testcase to 
> powerpc*-*-*
> (which I am not doing in this patch), I noticed that the assembler 
> option
> "-a64" was flagged as an illegal option when I configured with:
>
>   --target=powerpc-linux --enable-targets=all
>
> but passes just fine when configured with
>
>   --target=powerpc-linux --enable-targets=powerpc64-linux
>
> I tracked this down to we are not setting want64 to true in 
> bfd/configure
> when configuring with --enable-targets=all.

That's what --enable-64-bit-bfd is for; if your host and target
both are 32-bit you don't get 64-bit BFD targets enabled without
it.


Segher



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