Hi, Please find below a patch to fix PR83789. The altivec builtin '__builtin_altivec_lvx' fails for the 32-bit powerpc-linux target. This is observed in gcc-7 onwards and does not affect powerpc64-linux target.
This is regression tested for powerpc-linux. Please let me know if this patch is OK. Regards, Kaushik M Phatak 2018-02-01 Kaushik Phatak <kaushik.pha...@kpit.com> PR target/83789 * config/rs6000/rs6000.c (altivec_expand_builtin): Provide support for 32-bit target for altivec builtin. Index: gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c =================================================================== --- gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c (revision 256400) +++ gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c (working copy) @@ -15799,8 +15799,10 @@ exp, target, false); case ALTIVEC_BUILTIN_LVX: case ALTIVEC_BUILTIN_LVX_V4SI: - return altivec_expand_lv_builtin (CODE_FOR_altivec_lvx_v4si_2op, - exp, target, false); + return altivec_expand_lv_builtin (((TARGET_64BIT) + ? CODE_FOR_altivec_lvx_v4si_2op + : CODE_FOR_altivec_lvx_v4si_internal), + exp, target, false); case ALTIVEC_BUILTIN_LVX_V8HI: return altivec_expand_lv_builtin (CODE_FOR_altivec_lvx_v8hi_2op, exp, target, false);