Kevin,
Your S/W vendor isn't paying attention to portability.
I used to do portation work inside the Thoroughbred Business BASIC
interpreter; The real question w/r/t "intel architecture" is
probably an
indication that they cannot cope with varying byte sex (also referred
to as "endianness"); Intel's is "reverse byte sex" (a/k/a little
endian)
while the s/390, PPC, Sparc et al are "forward byte sex" (or big
endian).
Granted, other architectures are weirder, like the DEC VAX which
seems to have a "random scramble" byte order for a long integer.
This question is not a good sign. It means the vendor hasn't spent
any time during development to ensure portability. When code isn't
designed for portability, you face a "migration" workload rather than
a portation workload.
Been there. Done that. Would rather not remember.
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Linux on 390 Port
Greetings Everyone,
As I am investigating vendor support for Linux/390, I have run into a
question I cannot answer. Vendors want to know if Linux/390 emulates Intel
architecture. Apparently, when programming in C, they have to write the
application to the specific architecture and that it will not work on
non-Intel based systems. Is this an issue which can be resolved as part of
a recompile?
Cheers,
Kevin
