From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA05849 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:24:24 -0600 From: Stan Sieler Message-Id: <199906211723.KAA39308@bart.allegro.com> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility To: Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com (Matthew Wilcox) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: law@cygnus.com, Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com, parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com In-Reply-To: <19990621105017.N30362@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> from "Matthew Wilcox" at Jun 21, 99 10:50:17 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII List-ID: 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/