Re: Building binutils on Solaris

[Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Nick Clifton wrote:

> Rainer wrote:
> 
> : > If I want that gcc/g++ optimize as good as possible for an Ultrasparc 
> : > processor by default (i.e. without telling -mcpu=ultrasparc), which 
> : > configuration option should I give?
> : > 
> : 
> : Brian Ford wrote:
> :
> : I am still rassling with this one myself.  Maybe someone on the list
> : will know better than I?  Since -mcpu=ultrasparc requires either the
> : Solaris as and ld, or a newer than release version of the GNU binutils,
> : and it has certain codegen bugs and internal compiler errors, it obviosly
> : doesn't work.  I think -mcpu=supersparc might be more stable and give you
> : some optimizations.  See the gcc info pages under:
> : Invoking GCC -> Submodel Options -> SPARC options for a description of all
> : that are available.
> 
> Can't you use --with-cpu=ultrasparc when configuring, so that the
> default cpu will be the ultrasparc ?
> 

Yes, but per the discussion above, this results in a mostly broken
compiler.  I was suggesting, only not clear enough, to use
--with-cpu=supersparc as it might be more stable.

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