Shows how much I know about Linux! Sorry. Can you clarify this a bit, though? Can a vendor compile their product on, say, x86 and then hand the resulting output(?) to a client where the client could then "re-compile" it on, say, zSeries, even though the client does not actually have the source code?
Frank --- Frank Swarbrick Senior Developer/Analyst - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation - (303) 235-1403 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/27/2005 7:19:43 PM >>> On Sep 27, 2005, at 7:19 PM, 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... GCC already basically does that; its internal representation (to which the various languages in the GCC suite compile) is, I think, architecture independent. But the problem is still that you need to compile it to native instructions on the target architecture (or cross-compile it). Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
