From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | stange(at)rentec(dot)com |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: solaris build problem with Sun compilers |
Date: | 2006-05-18 16:02:55 |
Message-ID: | 200605181602.k4IG2tL08931@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Alan Stange wrote:
> > Uh, are you saying our Solaris Sparc "cas" ASM is only going to work for
> > Solaris 11 tools? That doesn't sound good. We must have people using
> > earlier Solaris tools.
>
> No, I'm not saying that at all.
>
> I think I'm saying that cas is OK for any reasonable Solaris+Sparc+Sun
> compiler combination. It'll fail on any SuperSparc based hardware and
> older compilers (more than ~5 years), but that's too bad.
Well, when you look at the cost/benefit of using cas vs. ldstub, it
seems logical to keep ldstub for those older platforms.
> I'm also saying that cas in not OK for any gcc+binutils combination. As
> far as I can tell, gcc is still building code for the v7 platform by
> default. It's possible to override this, but I don't think it's
> something you can test for in the preprocessor.
OK, I added a comment that gcc generates sparcv7 binaries.
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