On donderdag, okt 3, 2002, at 01:27 Europe/Brussels, Michel wrote: I have that painful conversion loop in a driver. Can I use altivec in that context? is it safe? are the vector register saved etc? Thats assuming my installer would install the relevant binary etc. I don't know whether it's safe, but if it is: please do *not* install one binary or another depending on whether altivec is available at installation time. Currently, an installation of Mac OS X can always be used to boot any machine supporting it, which is very handy. Doing this kind of stuff would break this (very useful) functionality. Just do a test a runtime and set a function pointer instead. Jonas _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.