Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 15:31 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:

quoted

GCC 4.8 now generates out-of-line vr save/restore functions when
optimizing for size.  They are needed for the raid6 altivec support.

It looks like they're identical for 32 & 64-bit ?

They use different temporary registers and calling conventions (no .opd
for ppc64).
  
Andreas.

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