Hi Luke,
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > 1.5 and 1.9 never had SIMD / VMX / VSX so there shouldn't be a problem > (for G5). > > which, coming back to the original question, i'm not seeing a reason > why disabling altivec should not compile. > > unless, of course, there have been assumptions "#ifdef PPC64 equals > POWER9 therefore VSX" which are unfortunately creeping in ever since > EABI 2.0 came about? actually the original point is even for PPC32, note just PPC64. The configure check added by Adrian in Firefox checks if the compiler accepts -maltivec and just enables it in the build. However, this assumption is not correct and causes issues as explained in my previous mail. Riccardo
