On jeu, 2003-11-20 at 10:04, Kristian Peters wrote: > 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. ;-)
Apple do use its own version of gcc, where lot of changes in both front-end and back-end have not been integrated into gcc yet. Hub
