Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Sounds like Linux needs an intermediate "byte-code" format, so you could
use gcc to compile to this byte-code and then have gcc on the
destination machine compile the byte-code in to it's natural machine
code.
Heh, just a random thought...
You can get gcc to produce preprocessed source which you can then
compile without all the headers and, (I preume) very quickly.
You still need the libraries to link against and to run against though.
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Frank Swarbrick
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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?
Not a lot. It's just a way of formatting storing the machine language
and the metadata to enable linking to the required shared libraries.
You still need the right CPU for the imbeeded machine Language.
Hi James,
ELF is an object file format...
The ELF on x86 Linux follows the same ELF as z/Series does, but the
bytes in there don't. Your product will need to be rebuilt for
z/Series
Linux. Mainframe linux won't run PC linux programs (at least
directly.)
Or quickly.
Apple has an interesting idea, if I have it right. "Fat" binaries are
capable of incorporating more than one set of machine-languge code.
Think one set of binaries for 68000+PPC (which I expect is where the
notion originated) or PPC+IA32.
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John
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