Re: [Q] PowerPC compilation questions.

ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons)
Fri, 29 Jul 1994 02:19:20 GMT

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From: ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons)
Keywords: linker, question
Organization: CONVEX News Network, Engineering (cnn.eng), Richardson, Tx USA
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 02:19:20 GMT

patteeuw@etcv01.eld.ford.com (Jack Patteeuw) writes:


> All of these ABI, have enough differences to make them incompatible, and
> force compiler writers to have different compilers, assembler and linkers
> for each OS. Even the object files format are different (AIX uses XCOFF,
> SVR4 uses ELF and WNT and S7 are both unique).


Just curious... Do the assemblers support the same syntax and semantics
across each of these operating systems??? If so, one compiler can support
all architectures easily. This gets us back to the old argument about
output from a compiler (assembler vs. object code).


Thank you.
Steve Simmons
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