B.2.138 -xsafe=mem

(SPARC) Allows the compiler to assume no memory protection violations occur.

This option grants permission to use non-faulting load instruction on the SPARC V9 architecture.

Because non-faulting loads do not cause a trap when a fault such as address misalignment or segmentation violation occurs, you should use this option only for programs in which such faults cannot occur. Because few programs incur memory-based traps, you can safely use this option for most programs. Do not use this option for programs that explicitly depend on memory-based traps to handle exceptional conditions.

This option takes effect only when used with optimization level -xO5 and one of the following -xarch values: sparc, sparcvis, or sparcvis2 for both -m32 and -m64.