Re: GNUstep for Darwin

[Adam Fedor]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> Adam Fedor wrote:
>
> > GNUstep is close to being ported. Right now there is an odd bug in
> > Darwin GCC that causes the compiler to apparently output Altivec
> > instructions for some GCC __builtin functions even on machines that
> > don't have Altivec
>
> Do I know about this one already?  I thought we'd eliminated all
> the accidental appearances of AltiVec instructions a while ago.


It was entered in the Darwin bug database (not sure what the real name 
of that is) by LHelldorf@kabel.de. He also sent some mails to the darwin 
developer list about it.  The actual error messages are something like:

/var/tmp/ccspbaaa.s:1753:vector instruction is optional for the PowerPC (not 
allowed without -force_cpusubtype_ALL option)

when the file includes __builtin_apply, etc.

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