Altivec

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-02-26 at 03:57pm, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 26.02.2012, 15:50 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I notice in recent changelog of VLC that apparently it is now built 
> > with altivec on PowerPC, as a fix for bug#660936.
> 
> No, the bug was, that -maltivec wasn't passed to one plugin. I checked 
> the log of 1.1.13 and it was build the same way (with -maltivec).
> 
> > Is that ok?  I mean, do we no longer support non-altivec PowerPC 
> > machines, or is it somehow ensured that only an Altivec plugin is 
> > affected, not all code?
> 
> Only a few plugins are build with Altivec.

Eeexcellent :-D


 - Jonas

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