From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:50:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added configure test for Altivec.
X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_4_0~587
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5bdbf593f242f22375130b1fecaf1557565b97fd;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git

Added configure test for Altivec.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@8052
---

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index cfc2d7585b..8bb4f4658e 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -729,6 +729,33 @@ CFLAGS=$safe_CFLAGS
 AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_OPENMP], [test x$ac_have_openmp = xyes])
 
 
+# does this compiler support -maltivec and does it have the include file
+# <altivec.h> ?
+
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([for Altivec])
+
+safe_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS
+CFLAGS="-maltivec"
+
+AC_TRY_COMPILE(
+[
+#include <altivec.h>
+], [
+  vector unsigned int v;
+],
+[
+ac_have_altivec=yes
+AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+], [
+ac_have_altivec=no
+AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+])
+CFLAGS=$safe_CFLAGS
+
+AM_CONDITIONAL([HAS_ALTIVEC], [test x$ac_have_altivec = xyes])
+AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_ALTIVEC_H], [test x$ac_have_altivec = xyes])
+
+
 # Check for eventfd_t, eventfd() and eventfd_read()
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for eventfd()])