James Melin writes:
>I've got a customer here that's all excited about ELF binaries. They have a
>product they'd like to see run on z/Series linux but there is no
>declaration that z/Series is a supported platform. They do state that their
>binaries are 100% ELF compatible. What exactly does that mean for an intel
>based product when someone wants to have you try it on z/Series cuz it's
>ELF binary compatible. Shouldn't work regardless, should it?
Nope, it won't work. ELF binaries still contain machine code, and that
Intel instruction set would make for some pretty random s390 instructions.
But Linux on s390 won't run it, because the header will let it know that
it's for the wrong system architecture.
ELF is for letting you run executables under different operating systems,
not on different architectures.
- MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software, Inc.
Newton, MA USA
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