[OpenIndiana-discuss] running sunpro binaries

[Goetz T. Fischer]

thanks, i'm aware. i would use sunpro on indiana directly and not stuff compiled on solaris.

i'm still interested in any performance comparisons between sunpro and gcc/clang.

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 14:34:47 -0800, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> As mentioned in the thread already, binaries for Oracle Solaris 11 are
> not compatible with illumos. Sometimes they _appear_ to work, but
> this is at best by accident; in the worst case the software may end up
> doing something that will cause potentially silent data corruption,
> etc.
> 
> If the Studio binaries you're using were not built on a Solaris
> release from before Oracle made their fork from OpenSolaris, then the
> Studio binaries are themselves not compatible. Even if they appear to
> work, there should be no expectation that they will produce correct
> binaries for an illumos system.
> 
> We used to use, or at least allow people to use, Studio to build and
> lint parts of illumos itself. The version of Studio we were using is
> at this point truly ancient, and we have long since told people to
> stop using it (and removed things like lint support from the OS
> build).
> 
> In general, I would advise you to use up-to-date tool chains (whether
> open source or proprietary) that have been specifically built for, and
> tested on, an illumos system.
> 
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --
> Joshua M. Clulow
> http://blog.sysmgr.org
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