We cannot build these files with clang as it does not allow altivec
instructions in assembly when -msoft-float is passed.
Jinsong Ji <jji@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> We currently disable Altivec/VSX support when enabling soft-float. So
> any usage of vector builtins will break.
>
> Enable Altivec/VSX with soft-float may need quite some clean up work, so
> I guess this is currently a limitation.
>
> Removing -msoft-float will make it work (and we are lucky that no
> floating point instructions will be generated as well).
This is a workaround until the issue is resolved in clang.
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31177
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/239
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>