> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> At the moment GCC 4.2.1 seems to be tied to the UltraSparc processor and >> thus the older sun4m and 32-bit Sparc machines are being ignored. > > The default cpu is v8plus. You can change that by using the configure > option --with-cpu=v8 or --with-cpu=v7 depending on how old your machine is.
A number of people have fired this at me and the configure script is running now with --wite-cpu=v7 there. I realize that this hardware is at the end of its life. Probably well past. But I am doing this for experimental reasons only. This is my litmus test that allows me to verify that GCC is *still* the definitive free compiler which will run on virtually anything anywhere .. even on old old junk like this. After this is done and I submit the testsuite I will decommision this machine. Actually the definitive free compiler would be the Sun Studio 12 compiler but only if you run Solaris 9 and up. Dennis
