Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> writes: >> 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.
as(1) mentions no -xarch value beyond v9b, while strings on the as binary reveals v9, v9[a-dv], but no v9e. Seems to be a gas invention. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University