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optisa

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 25 Jul 1997
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NAME

optisa - determine which variant instruction set is optimal to use  

SYNOPSIS

optisa instruction_set...  

DESCRIPTION

optisa prints which instruction_set out of the ones specified in the command will perform best on this machine. In this case, ``best'' is defined by the order in which instruction set names are returned by isalist(1). Possible values for instruction_set are given in isalist(5).  

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu

 

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0 One of the instruction_set values you specified is printed by this command.

1 There is no output; that is, this machine cannot use any instruction_set that you specified with the optisa command.

 

SEE ALSO

isalist(1), uname(1), attributes(5), isalist(5)  

NOTES

optisa is preferable to uname -p or uname -m (see uname(1)) in determining which of several binary versions of a given program should be used on the given machine.


 

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NAME
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DESCRIPTION
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EXIT STATUS
SEE ALSO
NOTES

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