[gmx-developers] GROMACS 3.1.x and 3.2.x AltiVec support fix

[Erik Lindahl]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks for finding this. Just to make sure - this is a vanilla gcc, and 
not the motorola-patched version? (Yellow Dog used to distribute a 
motorola patch for gcc-2.95 before gcc had Altivec support, but I think 
it's the vanilla version now).

The problem is that the OS X compiler is also "gcc" but the version 
distributed by Apple doesn't use any altivec.h file (it isn't even 
present).

Oh well, I guess I can see if there are any vendor predefined Macros on 
OS X that aren't defined by the FSF version of gcc, or I can search for 
an altivec.h file during the configure phase...

Cheers,

Erik


On May 6, 2004, at 1:40 AM, Charlie Peck wrote:

> In order for GROMACS (3.1.x and 3.2.x) to build and use AltiVec 
> instructions
> on PowerPC chips running Yellow Dog Linux/gcc 3.3.2 there are two 
> files in
> the distribution which need a header file added to them.
>
> In configure "#include <altivec.h>" should be added before main() in 
> the
> generated C code in the AltiVec support test section. You can find this
> by searching for "supports altivec".
>
> In include/ppc_altivec.h "#include <altivec.h>" should be added before 
> the
> first function definition.
>
> charlie peck
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