gmp-4.1.2 installation

Igor Schein igor@txc.com
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:54:35 -0400


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:46:04AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Igor Schein <igor@txc.com> writes:
> >
> > sparcv9 means 64bit,
> 
> No, in gmp sparcv9 represents an ISA.  On solaris it can run in either
> 32 or 64 bit ABI.  See ABI and ISA in the manual.

That's a bit inconsistent with the normal Solaris notations:

% isainfo
sparcv9 sparc

64bit and 32bit respectively.

Also, Sun cc uses -xarch=v9 to compile 64bit binaries.  So that's what
I meant in the previous email.

Igor