On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:39 AM Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: > > I have seen an increasing number of reports of GCC failing to > build with clang on powerpc (on FreeBSD, though that's probably > immaterial). > > Turns out that clang has vec_step as a reserved word on powerpc > with AltiVec. > > We OTOH use vec_step s as a variable name in gcc/tree-vect-loop.c. > > > The best approach I can see is to rename vec_step. Before I prepare > a patch: what alternate name/spelling would you prefer?
vec_step is not defined in any of the PowerPC ABIs nor the Altivec PEM/PIM. Clang is not using a namespace reserved to the compiler by defining vec_step. The PowerPC maintainers in the Clang community are not willing to rectify this? Thanks, David
