On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, segv@netctl.net wrote:

> What about supplying '-mcpu=ultrasparc' flags to gcc? It should compile 32-bit
> binaries, but with UltraSparc extensions. There are problems with X sources in
> NetBSD's source tree when building 32-bit sparc port with '-mcpu=ultrasparc',
> but '-mcpu=v9' seems to work.

You could do that but then the resultant binaries would not run on older 
machines.  OTOH that's not usually a problem any more.

Eduardo