> No, quite the contrary. as is just a (sometimes partial) backport of > Studio fbe, though it's hard to tell exactly which Studio version of fbe > forms the basis of as. Especially for the Solaris 10 as patches, only > particular bugfixes/enhancements have been backported. > > Backward compatibility is maintained, of course. as(1) lists > > -xarch=v9 > > Equivalent to: -m64 -xarch=sparc > > and many more.
Does it list -xarch=v8pluse/-xarch=v9e as equivalent to -m32/64 -xarch=sparc4? If so, I don't think that we need to change our scheme, using 'e' instead of 'd' for SPARC4 instructions should work just fine with both GNU and Sun as. -- Eric Botcazou
