http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51251
--- Comment #9 from davem at gcc dot gnu.org 2011-11-21 19:11:56 UTC --- In addition to the comments so far about what the testsuite framework should be doing, I also think the sparc option processing is currently doing the right thing given the input seen here. If you say "-mcpu=cypress -mvis" which is what the command line amounts to, it meant to enable VIS and that requires turning on V9 also which is what the option processing in the sparc backend does.
