Sriram Natarajan wrote: > Shanti > Well, there seems to be a bit of disconnect here. Sun Studio Compiler > folks consistently recommend us to use '-fast' compiler option but at > the same time folks reviewing our integration within SXDE give a > consistent 'NO' to this option.
AFAIK the project is that "-fast" is one giant ugly big monster and you don't see what it does behind it's back and it changes between compiler versions (see below for a solution) ... > I am not sure, what is the right > direction here. It will be very unfortunate and confusing for folks > using SXDE or Indiana if components from Cool Stack can significantly > out perform. Erm... simple solution: Just dismangle the "-fast" macro option and replace it with the options it expands to (see cc(1) for a list) ... problem solved (and see my warning about changing the floating-point datatypes...) ... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
