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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Fix altivec vector return location
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Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:17:51PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> powerpc-linux is not using -mabi=altivec by default, thus vector types are
>> returned in general registers instead of altivec registers.
>> 
>> Andreas.
>> 
>> 2007-03-15  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
>> 
>> 	* ppc-linux-tdep.c (ppc_linux_return_value): Vectors are returned
>> 	in general registers.
>
> Hmmm... but what about people who do use -mabi=altivec?

I have no idea how to detect that.

Andreas.

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