Re: supercollider FTBFS on ppc64el

On 2026-07-03 15:23, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Trupti,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 4:17 AM Trupti <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi JeffHi Jeff,
> 
> One small suggestion for the patch.  For:
> 
>  private:
>      static ivec set_vector(int i)
>      {
>  #ifdef __GNUC__
> -        return (ivec){i, i, i, i};
> +        return (ivec){(unsigned int)i,(unsigned int)i, (unsigned
> int)i, (unsigned int)i};
>  #else
>  #error compiler not supported
>  #endif
> 
> I believe you can use this, which usually produces faster code.  I'm
> not sure how important it is since a C++ constructor is probably _not_
> being called on a critical path.
> 
> +        return (ivec)vec_splat_s32(i);
> 
> There's also a vec_splat_u32 for unsigned integers.  But the cast
> before the return should handle the type conversion from int to
> unsigned int vector.
> 

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for pointing it out.
I tried return (ivec)vec_splat_s32(i); but it gave:
error: argument 1 must be a literal between -16 and 15, inclusive
since it requires a compile-time constant, but i here is a runtime 
value.

So I used vec_splats((unsigned int)i) instead, and opened a Merge 
Request with the updated patch:
with the updated patch 
https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/supercollider-sc3-plugins/-/merge_requests/4


Thanks,
Trupti