From: Stan Sieler <sieler@allegro.com>
To: Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com (Matthew Wilcox)
Cc: law@cygnus.com, Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com,
parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:23:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199906211723.KAA39308@bart.allegro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990621105017.N30362@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> from "Matthew Wilcox" at Jun 21, 99 10:50:17 am
Hi,
> > Just write translators on the hpux emulation side.
>
> Yes, this is certainly what we'll do. But if we can be clever and get a
> bunch of compatibility for free, then we should.
The problem with translators is that they don't work in all cases.
The most important case is where you want to link some .o files
together: some are compiled for Linux, some for HP-UX.
*That's* why having different system call numbers is important.
--
Stan Sieler sieler@allegro.com
http://www.allegro.com/sieler/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-21 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-20 17:40 [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-20 19:45 ` Stan Sieler
1999-06-20 20:21 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-06-21 8:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 15:06 ` [parisc-linux] Assembly error: entry.S John David Anglin
1999-06-21 15:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 15:27 ` John David Anglin
1999-06-21 15:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 15:55 ` John David Anglin
1999-06-21 16:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 16:16 ` John David Anglin
1999-06-21 16:32 ` [parisc-linux] Hack to head.S John David Anglin
1999-06-21 17:23 ` Stan Sieler [this message]
1999-06-21 17:48 ` [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility Jeffrey A Law
1999-06-21 18:07 ` Stan Sieler
1999-06-21 18:23 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-06-20 21:05 ` Alan Cox
1999-06-21 8:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 10:35 ` Alan Cox
1999-06-21 21:39 ` Larry Dwyer
1999-06-22 9:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-22 9:49 ` Alan Cox
1999-06-22 10:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-06-21 18:20 Mike Hibler
1999-06-21 20:49 ` Stan Sieler
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