Like James said as long as you are making no system calls that are architecture specific or writing in ASM you should have no issues at all crossing between PPC and Intel. I have built a lot of stuff on PPC and Intel and had no issues, but it was very basic stuff.
Josh
On 3/27/06, James Washer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Interesting subject, though I doubt there will be much interest from the group. Very few folks be interested in PPC.
I'll take a stab at answering things here.. No, you shouldn't have to rewrite you apps, UNLESS you are using assembly, or you are making architecture specific system calls, like modify_LDT, or you've been "fancy" with structure packing, etc, relying on 32bit ints, etc.
Power PC ONLY in the future? Wow.. I wish. Somehow I doubt Intel is going out of business anytime soon.
Are you currently running 64bit?
- jim
p.s. you didn't mention what language your apps were written in, so I'm assuming "C".
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