Solaris

It seems you are hitting a bug fixed in a later version:
Sun Studio C++ - iropt never completes

Hi Jlliagre,

I had a session with my Dev team again to understand the issue.

Their issue is that the Folder-/opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/bin/sparcv9 which holds the 64bit binaries contain only two binaries - "dbx" and "ild".

While as the Folder-/opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib/v9 which holds the 64bit libraries contain a lot of libraries.

My Dev team's issue can be resolved if the "bin" folder can be populated with 64bit binaries like "CC","iropt" and a lot others for which there is a corresponding 64bit library in lib folder.

If any of you guys have /opt/SUNWspro/ installed on a SPARC machine,i would appreciate if you can check and confirm whether there is a 64bit binary for "CC" in folder specified above.

Note - The Dev team has clarified that when they use the 32bit"CC" to refer to 64bit lib files,the wrong ELF class error is triggered. There solution is a "64bit compiled "CC".

Would appreciate if any of you can share any knowledge on this.

Note- I hope i have not confused everybody.

Thanks
HG

I believe your dev team is wrong in their conclusions. A 32 bit CC is perfectly able to build 64 bits binaries, acting as some kind of a cross compiler.

You might hit a bug though and then should either contact your support or upgrade to a current release.

If you want this to be discussed further here, better to provide a reproducible use case with all steps.

Write a short test program:

file.c

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
#ifdef _LP_64
    printf( "64-bit!\n" );
#else
    printf( "32-bit!\n" );
#endif
    return( 0 );
}

Compile it, but DON'T mess around with any environment variables, that's completely unnecessary:

Code:

cc -g -xarch=v9 file.c -o test64
cc -g file.c -o test32

Then run both binaries. Examine them with the "file" utility. Note that one is 32-bit, and the other is 64-bit.

Ask them what the problem is.

Or do they really think the entire rest of the world is failing to create 64-bit binaries using Sun Studio?

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WS6U2 is ancient. Upgrade it. Upgrades are free. Just be aware you can't go past Sun Studio 11 if you're still on Solaris 8.

As for their problems getting the wrong libraries, have them produce the output of this command, from the same terminal they're having the issues compiling:

Code:

env | grep LD

I strongly suspect they have a lot of junk in their LD_LIBRARY_PATH. They should have NOTHING in any LD-type environment variables that points into the compiler suite installation.

They're thinking WAY too much about this.

achenle: they (maybe) are having an issue with CC, the C++ compiler, not cc.

So replace "cc" with "CC" in the compile command.

To have the iropt subcommand to be called by the compiler, that would be at least "CC -O2". eg:

Code:

CC -O2 -g -xarch=v9 file.c -o test64
CC -O2 -g file.c -o test32