Re: PPC cflags

On Sun February 20 2005 11:41 am, Nick Smith wrote:
> <quote who="Erik Zeek">
>
> > On Sat February 19 2005 10:18 pm, Carl Hudkins wrote:
> >> On Sat February 19 2005 21:49, Nick Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>  Here on a 450 MHz G3, I've been using these flags for many
> >> months with no
> >> problems:
> >>
> >> CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=G3 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
> >> -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe"
> >
> > Does the G3 have altivec extensions?  I thought that they didn't
> > show up till
> > the G4.
>
> man dont tell me that! i was going with what the guy said and
> have almost completed the entire bootstrap with those cflags! i
> hope your wrong.....(no offense of course)
>
> > Erik
>

If I recall correctly, it won't kill any thing.  It might slow somethings 
down.  I just don't know for sure.  The -mabi might cause problems with 
compatibly with precompiled modules.

The best thing would be to look it up.  I'm no expert on the PPC, but I 
believe that I am correct in this.

Erik

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