On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:56:18PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:

> Are you saying that there is automaticaly v8 and v7 code compiled in,
> which is choosen at runtime?

yes!

Look at your /etc/ld.so.conf, it should read:
libc.so.12	machdep.cpu_arch	8:libsparc_v8.so.0,libc.so.12	9:libsparc_v8.so.0,libc.so.12

(the v9 part is not there in older versions)

> That doesn't mean, that the difference is because of v7 vs. v8.

No, but it's a hint for the magnitude.

Martin