Subject: Re: Any news on 450 G4?
From: Jason Titus (jason@iatlas.com)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 16:24:37 MDT
As far as I can tell, it is not linked to from anything, but was mentioned
on the Darwin list. Here is the URL for the source :
http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/source/egcs-2.tar.gz
Enjoy!
Jason.
p.s. - Here is a useful (and hard to find) URL for searching all of the
Apple mailing lists -
http://public.lists.apple.com/search.html
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>From: jim hopper <hopperj@macconnect.com>
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: Re: Any news on 450 G4?
>Date: Mon, Oct 4, 1999, 5:36 PM
>
> Is the egcs sources available on the darwin site?
>
> thanks jim
>
>>I've spent a fair amount of time investigating the AltiVec additions to gcc,
>>and as far as I can tell they will not be included in the general tree
>>anytime too soon unless some real initiative is taken. Apple has a version
>>of egcs 1.12 (w/ source) for Darwin that is hacked up to support AltiVec,
>>but the egcs team says they have not received the patches.
>>
>>Also, generating the patches will not be a simple process, since Apple has
>>removed support for anything but Mac OS X / Darwin from their source tree
>>(is this allowed under the GPL?)...
>>
>>It sure would be a great thing to be able to harness the power of AltiVec
>>from Linux.
>>
>>If anyone is working on this and would like help - please pop me a note and
>>I'll do whatever I can!
>>
>>Jason.
>>jason@iatlas.com
>>
>>p.s. - the following is a note I sent to one of the Apple Darwin developers.
>>It was forwarded on, but I haven't received a reply.
>>
>>--------
>>
>>Just wondering - I saw your note on the Darwin mailing list in August about
>>merging Apple's AltiVec patches to the main gcc source tree, and thought
>>this might be of interest to you. I work with Mac OS, Mac OS X, and
>>LinuxPPC and am looking forward to taking advantage of AltiVec instructions
>>across all three.
>>
>>I had originally considered doing a diff between egcs 1.1.2 and the egcs2
>>tarball, but was concerned about the large sections of egcs that had been
>>striped out. Is there any work being done to make these patches? gcc
>>(2.95.1+) is having a number of new optimizations added to it, and it would
>>be great to be able to take advantage of them on all Mac hardware platforms.
>>
>>Let me know if I could be of any help, and thanks for all the hard work!
>>
>>Jason Titus
>>jason@iatlas.com
>>
>>----------------------------
>>http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/gcc/1999-09/msg00915.html
>>----------------------------
>>Re: egcs and altivec vector type
>>
>>
>>* To: dyoung at vviuh221 dot vvi dot com
>>* Subject: Re: egcs and altivec vector type
>>* From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
>>* Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:09:03 -0400
>>* Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> >>>>> David Young writes:
>>
>>David> Does egcs correctly generate code for the altivec vector and pixel
>>types?
>>David> What is the status of this feature?
>>David> Is there a URL explaining the status or plan of this feature for
>>egcs?
>>
>> Apple apparently has a version of egcs-1.1.2 with AltiVec
>>functionality added available from an Apple website. I have not received
>>any contact from Apple about a timetable for contributing that work back
>>to GCC. Hopefully all of Apple's changes eventually will be incorporated
>>into the GCC public sources so that they do not need to maintain a
>>divergent branch and can utilize GCC development more rapidly.
>>
>>David
>>
>>
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>*
>
> At a recent computer software engineering course in the US, the participants
> were given an awkward question to answer. "If you had just boarded an
> airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible
> for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark
> immediately?"
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