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authorRyan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>2011-05-18 15:19:56 -0500
committerRyan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>2011-09-12 16:37:09 -0500
commit33ec460272bc74d968783725f24643ee4e953572 (patch)
tree5f59e2d062f81498d77458fcc2a11f19c9257eb6
parent736d35d8016504c74c28cd9e8ffd3b45039535dc (diff)
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Prevent Altivec and VSX insns on PowerPC64 when no FPRs or VRs are avail.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Makefile7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ee2ccdc4f4..6da2761989 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-05-18  Ryan S. Arnold  <rsa@us.ibm.com>
+
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Makefile (no-special-regs): Add -mno-vsx
+	and -mno-altivec to prevent the compiler from using Altivec and/or
+	VSX instructions when the corresponding registers are not available.
+
 2011-08-18  David Flaherty  <flaherty@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 
 	* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm/s_fmal.c: New file which checks
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Makefile b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Makefile
index c7cc601ec4..9056e60c4e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Makefile
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ endif
 
 # These flags prevent FPU or Altivec registers from being used,
 # for code called in contexts that is not allowed to touch those registers.
-# Stupid GCC requires us to pass all these ridiculous switches.
+# Stupid GCC requires us to pass all these ridiculous switches.  We need to
+# pass the -mno-* switches as well to prevent the compiler from attempting
+# to emit altivec or vsx instructions, especially when the registers aren't
+# available.
 no-special-regs := $(sort $(foreach n,40 41 50 51 60 61 62 63 \
 				      $(foreach m,2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, \
 						  3$m 4$m 5$m),\
@@ -20,7 +23,7 @@ no-special-regs := $(sort $(foreach n,40 41 50 51 60 61 62 63 \
 		   $(sort $(foreach n,$(foreach m,0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9,\
 						$m 1$m 2$m) 30 31,\
 				    -ffixed-v$n)) \
-		   -ffixed-vrsave -ffixed-vscr
+		   -ffixed-vrsave -ffixed-vscr -mno-altivec -mno-vsx
 
 ifeq ($(subdir),csu)
 sysdep_routines += hp-timing