Default to -mcpu=ultrasparc3 on Solaris/SPARC

Prompted by the discussions around a recent clang bug, I realized that
gcc still defaults to -mcpu=v9 on Solaris/SPARC.

This is an oversight since the Oracle Studio 12.6 cc, released in 2017,
already defaults to -xarch=sparcvis2, the equivalent of
-mcpu=ultrasparc3.  Besides, both the 32 and 64-bit libc.so.1 require
UltraSPARC III extensions anyway:

      SPARC32PLUS Version 1, V8+ Required, UltraSPARC3 Extensions Required [VIS]
      SPARCV9 Version 1, UltraSPARC3 Extensions Required [VIS]

So this patch follows suite.

Bootstrapped on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 and sparcv9-sun-solaris2.11 with
as/ld, gas/ld, and gas/gld configurations.

There are currently two regressions exposed by this patch (PRs 121191
and 121192), which are only present in gcc 16 resp. 15/16.

There's one small caveat: while Solaris now marks all objects with
EF_SPARC_32PLUS EF_SPARC_SUN_US1 EF_SPARC_SUN_US3, gas only sets the
EF_SPARC_SUN_US[13] flags in the ELF header if UltraSPARC I/III insns
are actually used.  This is in accordance with the SPARC Compliance
Definition 2.4.1, 4P-1.  In the end, it doesn't matter anyway since
libc.so.1 already has both flags, so the resulting executables and
shared objects will too, anyway.

2025-07-20  Rainer Orth  <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>

	gcc:
	* config.gcc <sparc*-*-solaris2*> (with_cpu): Default to ultrasparc3.

diff --git a/gcc/config.gcc b/gcc/config.gcc
index 8ed111392bb472e929d7d9044a944a5ff1ba2ec5..0d8dbc4fb199de2c7e61805ad789fa260912fcbb 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/config.gcc
+++ b/gcc/config.gcc
@@ -3504,10 +3504,9 @@ sparc*-*-solaris2*)
            sparc64-*-* | sparcv9-*-*)
                tm_file="sparc/default64.h ${tm_file}"
                ;;
-           *)
-               test x$with_cpu != x || with_cpu=v9
-               ;;
        esac
+       # Match Studio 12.6 cc.
+       with_cpu=${with_cpu:-ultrasparc3}
        tmake_file="${tmake_file} sparc/t-sparc sparc/t-sol2"
        ;;
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