On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:45:54PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
  | Luke Mewburn said:
  | 
  | >I do this on an Ultra5/270.  It did run NetBSD/sparc64, but I found
  | >certain applications (e.g, squid) wouldn't run correctly because of
  | >codegen bugs in the current sparc64 compiler in NetBSD (gcc 2.95).
  | 
  | Is there any testing going on with gcc 3.xx? It seems to work pretty well
  | on Solaris 8 and 9.

I haven't personally tested it myself, but I have seen reports that
gcc 3.x (especially 3.2.x and 3.3) should greatly improve things.