Re: [suse-ppc] Apple's gcc

On Fri, Jun 02, Nathan Moore wrote:

Are these extensions bundled with GCC (are they open-sourced) and thus available in Suse-ppc? Are they specific to OSX? Does gcc look for altivec optimizations if I feed it with -mcpu=7450 or -arch=ppc?

-mcpu=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec will work. -mcpu=G4 alone will likely not generate altivec.

The real meat of my question is if Apple's gcc is "better" than the standard version packaged with Suse.

You better ask that on the gcc list, I dont know what other optimizations Apple did for their version of gcc.