Thanks, Bart, I'll look into moe, however, I'm still looking for a solution that may be a bit less platform-specific. moe also doesn't seem to be available on Solaris releases before 10. What I am looking for, though, seems to be impossible after looking at the 'as' man page:
" -xarch=v8plus This option instructs the assembler to accept instruc- tions defined in the SPARC-V9 architecture, less the quad-precision floating-point instructions. The result- ing object code is in ELF format. It will not execute on a Solaris V8 system (a machine with a V8 processor). It will execute on a Solaris V8+ system. This combination is a SPARC 64-bit processor and a 32-bit OS." Perhaps there is some undocumented option that will prevent the ELF from being tagged? This seems worthy of being an RFE. This message posted from opensolaris.org