Thomas, The test fails on powerpc-apple-darwin9 because double are not vectorized. I think the following patch is required:
--- /opt/gcc/_gcc_clean/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/vect/vect-8.f90 2012-02-05 23:32:31.000000000 +0100 +++ /opt/gcc/work/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/vect/vect-8.f90 2012-02-06 11:17:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ! { dg-do compile } -! { dg-require-effective-target vect_float } +! { dg-require-effective-target vect_double } module lfk_prec integer, parameter :: dp=kind(1.d0) TIA Dominique