2007-03-15  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

	* ppc-linux-tdep.c (ppc_linux_return_value): Vectors are returned
	in general registers.

--- gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c
+++ gdb/ppc-linux-tdep.c
@@ -484,17 +484,47 @@
 /* For historic reasons, PPC 32 GNU/Linux follows PowerOpen rather
    than the 32 bit SYSV R4 ABI structure return convention - all
    structures, no matter their size, are put in memory.  Vectors,
-   which were added later, do get returned in a register though.  */
+   which were added later, do get returned in a register, although
+   not in an AltiVec register.  */
 
 static enum return_value_convention
 ppc_linux_return_value (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct type *valtype,
 			struct regcache *regcache, gdb_byte *readbuf,
 			const gdb_byte *writebuf)
 {  
-  if ((TYPE_CODE (valtype) == TYPE_CODE_STRUCT
-       || TYPE_CODE (valtype) == TYPE_CODE_UNION)
-      && !((TYPE_LENGTH (valtype) == 16 || TYPE_LENGTH (valtype) == 8)
-	   && TYPE_VECTOR (valtype)))
+  struct gdbarch_tdep *tdep = gdbarch_tdep (gdbarch);
+
+  if (TYPE_LENGTH (valtype) == 16
+      && TYPE_CODE (valtype) == TYPE_CODE_ARRAY
+      && TYPE_VECTOR (valtype))
+    {
+      /* Return value is in r3-r6.  */
+      if (readbuf)
+	{
+	  regcache_cooked_read (regcache, tdep->ppc_gp0_regnum + 3,
+				readbuf + 0);
+	  regcache_cooked_read (regcache, tdep->ppc_gp0_regnum + 4,
+				readbuf + 4);
+	  regcache_cooked_read (regcache, tdep->ppc_gp0_regnum + 5,
+				readbuf + 8);
+	  regcache_cooked_read (regcache, tdep->ppc_gp0_regnum + 6,
+				readbuf + 12);
+	}
+      if (writebuf)
+	{
+	  regcache_cooked_write (regcache, tdep->ppc_gp0_regnum + 3,
+				 writebuf + 0);
+	  regcache_cooked_write (regcache, tdep->ppc_gp0_regnum + 4,
+				 writebuf + 4);
+	  regcache_cooked_write (regcache, tdep->ppc_gp0_regnum + 5,
+				 writebuf + 8);
+	  regcache_cooked_write (regcache, tdep->ppc_gp0_regnum + 6,
+				 writebuf + 12);
+	}
+      return RETURN_VALUE_REGISTER_CONVENTION;
+    }
+  else if (TYPE_CODE (valtype) == TYPE_CODE_STRUCT
+	   || TYPE_CODE (valtype) == TYPE_CODE_UNION)
     return RETURN_VALUE_STRUCT_CONVENTION;
   else
     return ppc_sysv_abi_return_value (gdbarch, valtype, regcache, readbuf,