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. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > tools-linking mailing list > tools-linking at opensolaris.org
In general, relying on SIGILL is probably a bad idea as I'm not sure all opcodes that are undefined generate such a trap on all sparc processors. There may be a way of turning off the attributes on the elf file using a mapfile.... I'll try and find the details. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
