Derek E. Lewis wrote: > 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.
I know of no way to avoid the ELF file being tagged. However, we have long talked about the need for an "elfedit" utility. It wouldn't be hard for such a utility to erase, or modify the tagged fields. -- Rod.
