Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > -maltivec allows acces to the Altivec ABI. But gcc cannot perform > auto-vectorization on its own (yet). So compiling -maltivec won't change > anything if the code does not contain Altivec instructions (in the form > of assembly instructions or their C versions). And in that case, it > would not even compile without -maltivec :)
Just out of interest. How does Apple compile their software optimized for Altivec since they're using gcc too ? I don't think they have much assembly in their code. ;-) *Kristian
