Subject: Re: -ffixed-g4
To: Lloyd Parkes <lloyd@must-have-coffee.gen.nz>
From: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@NetBSD.ORG>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/30/2003 10:02:02
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:56:43PM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
> Does NetBSD/sparc64 use %g4 for anything, or is the proliferation of
> the flag -ffixed-g4 an aberation that has been inherited from old
> Solaris/GCC combindations?
That's for compatibility with gcc's "embedany" memory model which
is the default for many versions of gcc.
Eduardo