Thanks, this is all great information.

Mark

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Chris Howie <[email protected]> wrote:

> Alan answered most of the points, but I have one additional comment:
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Justin Dearing<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > If there is no difference, why do many OSS projects offer different
> > binaries?
>
> It's possible that they build using some #if blocks to alter behavior
> depending on the platform, but note that this is not necessary -- the
> execution platform can easily be detected at runtime.
>
> A more legitimate reason is that there may be some C glue library
> required on both platforms, and the different binary archives need to
> package the platform-specific glue.  Again, the managed (CIL) code can
> easily be identical in this case as well.
>
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