On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > 3. Update sparc-sun-solaris2.9 to sparc64-sun-solaris2.10? > > No strong opinion on the Solaris 9 -> Solaris 10 transition, but why switching > to a 64-bit compiler? The 32-bit compiler is multilib by default on Solaris > and AFAIK the vendor compiler is still 32-bit too.
gcc already has a broader set of features on Solaris 10, so that's a positive move, but full 64-bit is certainly a wrong way of doing things on sparc. Performance penalty nullifies all pros of 64-bit. Alex.
