[PATCH] PPC64: First in the series of patches implementing POWER8 vector math.

[Joseph Myers]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, GT wrote:

> > > +#if defined _ARCH_PPC64 && defined FAST_MATH
> >
> > Is _ARCH_PPC64 correct here - what's the status of support (in the GNU
> > toolchain, Linux kernel, etc.) for -mpowerpc64 with the 32-bit ABI (which
> > also defines _ARCH_PPC64)?
> 
> To address the support issues raised, a solution would be to have 
> 'configure' verify that the compiler generates a valid executable. Then 
> _ARCH_PPC64 would be replaced here by a macro determined at 
> configuration time.

Since installed headers need to work for all multilibs that might share a 
compiler and a set of headers, a configure-time test isn't suitable here.  
I think __powerpc64__ is the correct thing to test as an ABI conditional 
(as opposed to an instruction set conditional) - it's what 
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/bits/wordsize.h uses.

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Joseph S. Myers
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