>> True as far as it goes. But if there is no Ultrix ABI for SPARC, >> there is nothing to map. > I think you are deliberately missing the point.
Missing the point? Perhaps. But not deliberately. > the ultric compat layer does stuff like alter structure contents for > some calls, alter ioctl numbers, (etc etc) - all of that can be > tested by an application that knows what to expect on any > architecture at all. This sounds to me like exactly what I was talking about in >> It sounds as though you are proposing to, to pick a concrete example >> for convenience of language, design a SPARC ABI which is in some >> ways similar to the Ultrix ABI for VAX, then use that to test >> COMPAT_ULTRIX on SPARC. But you say it's "[n]ot quite that". Could you explain the difference(s) you see to me? I'm missing them. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
