George Vasick wrote:
>> Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at Sun.COM> writes:
>>> The question is one of compatibility to me... the provenance of the
>>> backend seems irrelevant, but its interface is not.
> Compatibility is extremely important.  This will be our 6th release of 
> gcc for Sparc with the Sun backend as the default.  Many applications 
> have been ported to Sparc using these compilers and have achieved high 
> performance.
> 
> We understand fears regarding regarding compatibility.  We take
> compatibility very seriously, and so far, these fears have not
> materialized.  We will aggressively address any compatibility issues
> that may arise in the future.
> 

Very good....

What does the different in the output of -v --help look like for
the backend (gas)?

=- Bart


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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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