------- Comment #3 from janis at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-01-29 23:45 ------- While testing an extremely simple patch for this PR I discovered that -mabi=no-altivec hasn't had an effect since r99284, which changed the way that options are handled for the rs6000 back end. Before that change, rs6000_override_options set rs6000_altivec_abi to the appropriate default before calling rs6000_parse_abi_options, which could change rs6000_altivec_abi. After that revision the -mabi option is handled _before_ the call to rs6000_override_options.
I'm now searching for the appropriate place to set the _default_, not _override_, for rs6000_altivec_abi. Hints gratefully accepted. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34526
