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Martin Buchholz writes:

 > >>>>> "John" == John A Turner <turner@branagh.ta52.lanl.gov> writes:
 > >> Please avoid the -fast Solaris option on Solaris.
 > 
 > John> Just a comment.  I've compiled every single 19.15 beta with -fast with
 > John> no problems.
 > 
 > If you're just building a binary to run on the build machine and
 > nowhere else, then -fast may be appropriate.  When building binaries
 > for use on multiple sparc architectures, just -xO4 seems like the way
 > to go.

You're right, of course; -fast turns on -native, which is definitely
not good if you want a binary to run on a variety of processors.

-J

