Bart Smaalders wrote: > 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)?
gas is part of the SUNWbinutils package and is separate from the GCC packages. It is not affected at all by this case. Let me know if I misunderstood your question. Thanks, George > > =- Bart > >
