http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55211
--- Comment #23 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-11-06 07:49:43 UTC --- > Eric, I checked, and that is not how Debian builds their gcc. > > They build with "sparc-unknown-linux" as the triplet. > > So they configure their compiler correctly, and I still contend > that nobody should use this sparc64+--with-cpu=v8 thing. You should have said so a decade (or more) ago when this was introduced. Anyway, I don't really understand why you don't seem to have it: I do have the faulty ldd instruction with crosses to sparc or sparc64 on x86 or x86-64. Maybe it isn't exercised in your build.