David Finberg wrote: > 1) Is there some reason why the chip specific compiler options are being > selected for building? Something like -fast seems like a much better > choice than hard coding some random Ultra 2 chip settings.
The expansion of -fast can change between compiler releases, or even in a compiler patch. Which will lead to a large number of problems we would like to avoid running into in the first place. This is the reason why we use certain specific compiler flags, which, by the way, at not "random Ultra 2 chip settings", but chosen to work well on all Ultra architectures Solaris 10+ supports. > 2) does this work on x86? Maybe i'll find out when I get home. Sparc > hates it. Yes, it works on both. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. stefan.teleman at Sun.COM
