Subject: Re: Are Linux executables compatable with Coherent 4.0? From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1992 11:26:24 GMT
In article <SJE.92Jul16142750@xylos.ma30.bull.com> sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com writes:
>The beta version of MWC Coherent 4.0 (32 bit flat addressing for the
>386+ CPU family) claims that it has SCO executable compatability for
>character I/O programs at the Intel Binary Interoperatibility Level
>(or whatever). MWC has gotten gcc to run allowing the production of
>ASNI C applications. However, there are only a limited number (less
>than 10) of officially converted applications. Given the apparently
>large number of programs now working under Linux, I was wondering if
>any of the Linux binaries, particularly gcc, may be run under Coherent
>4.0 without modification. Also, it would be interesting if the
>reverse was true.
>
>Is there anyone out there with definitive information about this? If
>the two operating systems had compatable executable formats, then it
>seems that we could all save some time as long porting candidates did
>not use OS specific functions.
Linux has no binary compatibility with any other OS.
--Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP