Re: Solaris 8 64-bit C compilation fails to add .register declaration

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas dot Williams at wdr dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:07:53AM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > I believe this non-emission constitutes a bug.
> 
> Thanks for your bug report. This is a bug, indeed. It is not the only
> one.
> 
> > I found instructions for building a 64-bit-capable GCC for Solaris 8
> > on UltraSPARCs
> 
> Don't follow such instructions. They mislead you by giving the
> impression that gcc supports sparcv9 (aka sparc64). It does not. Don't
> use gcc on that architecture, at least not in 64-bit mode. It is not
> supported, and has numerous bugs.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> P.S. If I only could get the FAQ-o-matic to work for me again, so I
> could add this to the FAQ...

Thanks for your quick reply.

Note also that the LSOF FAQ for LSOF 4.47_W provides some instructions
for building GCC for building 64-bit UltraSPARC binaries.

Between the changlogs for GCC 2.95.2, the LSOF FAQ and the instructions
I found on Usenet I came to believe that this was doable.

I guess the GCC and LSOF FAQs need updating then.

Thanks,

Nico

PS: Note I'm CC'ing this mail to LSOF's maintainer, Vic Abell <abe@purdue.edu>.

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