Shawn Walker wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out how to activate the gnu_compat flag
> that ube apparently supports via cc -Wu,<option here>.

We've only started adding serious gcc compatibility features to the
Sun compilers in the last release We still have a ways to go.  If you can
identify specific features that we should add it will help us get those
features fully implemented in a stable and documented way for
the next release.

We make features into wizard options for good reasons, they are
untested, or known to have major problems.

By the way, people inside Sun have just as much trouble using
undocumented features as people outside Sun.  ;-} There's really
no special advantage to being inside Sun as far as this
subject goes.

One reason the compiler team adds wizard options is to work around
special, obscure problems for important customers.  One
of these important customers in the Solaris team.
Sometimes the changes are made at the last minute before a
release, or in a patch.  So that's a perfect reason to
leave them undocumented and turned off by default.

tools-compilers is also a good way to follow up on compiler
specific issues.

--chris


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