[desktop-discuss] JDS Solaris 10u4

[Brian Cameron]

Shawn/Mark:

>> Though, to be honest, I'm not sure this is a huge deal.  Only a few
>> GStreamer plugins even use liboil, and you'ld only notice performance
>> benefit when using those plugins.
> 
> There's a special wizard option called "gnu_compat" that I think can
> be passed with something like -Wu,gnu_compat with Studio 12 that
> supports the GNU assembly syntax.
> 
> Look at tools-discuss for recent discussions about these options.

Yes, I am aware of this.  However, I have heard reports that the
Sun Studio compat stuff doesn't work so well with SSE/MMX hardware
acceleration assembly for some reason.  I haven't verified this,
though.

Brian