Why apologize? We all learn. I want to say "no", but as soon as I say it . . .
Without platform emulation, I really, really doubt it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Swarbrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:23 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: ELF Binaries and Linux on z/Series > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
