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Subject: Re: [musl] Re: ppc64le and 32-bit LE userland compatibility

Hi!

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 10:08:02PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > The ELFv2 document specifies things like passing of quadruple precision 
> > floats. Indeed, VSX is needed there, but that's not a concern if you 
> > *don't* use quadruple precision floats.
> 
> My understanding is that the registers used for argument passing are all 
> ones that exactly correspond to the Vector registers in earlier 
> instruction set versions.  In other words, you could *in principle* 
> produce an object, or a whole libm shared library,  [...]

And then there is the VRSAVE register, if your OS still uses that.
Let's hope not :-)

This is similar to what -mno-float128-hardware does (which actually
requires VSX hardware for the emulation library currently).


Segher