On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 08:02 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > It's been this way at least since 4.0. But it was rejected in 3.4.0.
> I believe that the problem with changing this unconditionally is that > the Altivec programming guidelines specify the rules which gcc > currently follows: you are permitted to assign one vector variable to > another, without an explicit cast, when the vectors are the same size. > So please check the Altivec programming manual. I already know it says it needs an explict cast and so does the C/C++ Language Extension for CBEA says the same thing because I just made sure of it last week when I was editing that specifications. Thanks, Andrew Pinski