> >I was wondering about the code comptibility between sunos and netbsd on
> >the sun3.  I thought I was reading that under some conditions binaries
> >were compatible, but they needed to be set up or linked in a special
> >way or the libraries brought along.
> >
> >If I wanted to compile foo.c on the sun3 with sunos and bring the
> >binary up on netbsd, what specific compiler/linker switches should
> >be set how, for a self-contained binary that would have the best
> >chance of working.
> >
> 
> Well, if you don't want to carry shared libraries around, you want -Bstatic
> Otherwise the standard generic kernel has COMPAT_SUNOS in by default. You'll
> need to make /emul/sunos and populate it with ld.so and the shared libraries
> in appropriate places in order to run dynamically linked executables.
> 
> christos
> 

What about obscure things like optimization switches?  Normally I shy 
away from optimizing, unless really necessary, since optimizers tend
to break.  Are the sunos cc optimizers good enough, or should I turn
that off, completely.

Thanks

Bob Keys