Re: [PORTS] solaris build problem with Sun compilers

Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
>
> On May 18, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> > Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
> >>
> >> On May 17, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
>
> [ snip ]
>
> >>> OK, so what do you suggest? Remove that URL from the comments?
> >>> Anything else?
> >>
> >> If you compile with -xarch=v8plus you should be able to omit the
> >> #ifdef's entirely. The sparcv8plus and sparcv9 cas instruction are
> >> identical. Is the goal here to support Sparc chips that do not
> >> support the v8plus instruction set? I'm not on the ports list, so
> >> maybe I missed the original problem report.
> >
> > We don't actually know all the Solaris versions/hardware we should
> > support, so it is hard to say if we currently have running sparcv8
> > CPUs.
> > The best solution is to use separate entries for v8 and v9. Is
> > there a
> > unique preprocessor symbol when a sparcv8plus binary is being
> > generated?
>
> Heh.. you could likely guess it:
> #if defined(__sparcv8plus)

Nice, comments and macro tests updated. New version of file attached.

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