These ‘-m’ options are defined for the VAX:
-munix ¶Do not output certain jump instructions (aobleq and so on)
that the Unix assembler for the VAX cannot handle across long
ranges.
-mgnu ¶Do output those jump instructions, on the assumption that the GNU assembler is being used.
-md ¶-md-floatUse the D_floating data format for double-precision floating-point numbers instead of G_floating.
-mg ¶-mg-floatUse the G_floating data format for double-precision floating-point numbers instead of D_floating.
-mlra ¶-mno-lraEnable Local Register Allocation. This is still experimental for the VAX, so by default the compiler uses standard reload.