On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:08:27AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've uploaded a new Altivec-enabled version of vlc (built from the > > 20011004 snapshot). It is available here: > > Wow you are a genius :):):) How did you manage to get those nasty old > Altivec tools to work on a recent Linux? Or did you x-compile from MacOS > X?
Binutils is already altivec enabled, and there are no problems assembling source. Debian's gcc-2.95 does not have the altivec intrisics patch applied by default, and for a good reason, since it fails compiling anything that is remotely non-trivial. Nevertheless, I keep an altivec-enabled gcc around because it is about 1000 times faster than me at converting altivec intrinsics into well-scheduled instructions. I use that to convert to assembly, fix up the assembly, and then use the assembly as the source. dave...
