On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, Måns Rullgård <m...@mansr.com> wrote:
> Sean McGovern <gsean...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Valgrind had a field day when I left it enabled -- it will need
>> further investigation as it must mean AltiVec is implemented
>> differently on POWER7.
>
> I thought the Power variants were generally backwards compatible.  How
> is it failing?  Does it pass tests without valgrind?

I'll have to try that manually -- note that Mike Kostylev's ppc64 FATE
builds don't use -mcpu=power7 (even though they give --cpu=power7 to
'configure') so they aren't a good base to say why this fails.

> Actually, this going to break on everything else.  Something has to
> detect if vsx is really supported on the selected CPU and disable it if
> not.
>

I can write a test for that, no problem.

-- Sean McG.
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