On Nov 10, 2006, at 7:33 AM, Chris Hollman wrote:

Admittedly I have never programmed (well, beyond 'hello world' anyways) but people are trying to tell me that Linux apps will have to be recoded (recompiled?) to work with the Cell processor on PS3 and I maintain that if an app can run in Linux now you will be able to download it and run it on YDL 5.0 on the PS3 without having to look for a "CELL Coded/re-compiled" version.
 
Who is right?
 

You certainly can't expect a binary that was compiled for an x86 machine to run on a PS3, or any other architecture that differs from what it was originally compiled for.

Binary code is cpu-specific, so you would have to find a version that was compiled for your particular CPU, or else get the source code and compile it yourself for the platform you want it to run on.

Of course there is no guarantee that code which compiles and runs on an x86 will do so properly on a different platform. It will if it was properly conceived and executed, but heck, we have a lot of code written for an x86 that won't even compile and/or run on an amd64 properly.
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