Jason McMullan wrote:

>Lots more syscall work needs to be done, but the infrastructure is
>not MIPS32 nor big-endian specific, so it should be extendable to
>s390 with a Small Matter Of Programming - basically, rip the user-mode
>instructions out of hercules.

Nice.  We were rather talking about the other way round, though,
i.e. running x86 binaries on S/390.  This would take an x86
emulator.

B.t.w. as it happens I wrote an x86 emulator some time ago, with
the original intention of integrating it into Wine (to allow
execution of Windows/x86 binaries on other platforms).  This
didn't work out for various reasons, but I still have the code ...

Even so, I doubt that a pure emulator will be viable for
serious applications due to performance reasons.  You'd probably
need a good JIT to make this work; and now we're talking about
quite another level of complexity ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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