Solaris 2.7 and 64-bit compiling

[Raffaele LaPietra <Raffaele dot Lapietra at East dot Sun dot COM>]

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From: Mika Perki|m{ki <mikap@iki.fi>
Subject: Solaris 2.7 and 64-bit compiling
Date: 8 Apr 1999 21:09:52 GMT
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Hello,

- Environment: Sun Ultrasparc (Ultra-5), Solaris 2.7 (64-bit)
- Task: compile a 64-bit C program 
- Available compilers: gcc, egcs and standard Solaris tools (as, ld)

- gcc does not support 64-bit -> out of question
- egcs-1.1.2 should support -> ok
- gcc-binutils (gas, gnu ld) don't support 64-bit -> out of question

So I'm using egcs-1.1.2 and Solaris as+ld. By:

foo% egcs -mcpu=v9 -Wa,-xarch=v9

things work fine and a 64-bit object file gets produced:

foo% file source.o
source.o:      ELF 64-bit MSB relocatable SPARCV9 Version 1

But. The linker does not recognize the object file:

foo% /usr/ccs/bin/ld source.o
source.o:      file not recognized: File format not recognized

Why does it go like this and is there any way to get it working?
Without Sun's C compiler, that is.

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Mika Perkiömäki
mikap@iki.fi


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