Re: CVS commit: syssrc

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

At 08:30 PM 1/9/00 , Jim Wise wrote:
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>On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Matt Thomas wrote:
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> >Log Message:
> >rename ibcs2_sysi86 to ibcs2_sysmachine (since ibcs2 now runs on other
> >things than i386).
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>Shouldn't the ibcs2 part of this name change as well?  If I understand
>correctly, IBCS == _Intel_ Binary Compatibility Standard, rev. 2, and is
>a standard ABI for SVRx on Intel.  Thus, if this is to be generalized to
>more architectures, perhaps this should be svrx_sysmachine...  (where on
>i386 it would in fact be an implementation of the IBCS2)?

It should.  But that's a bigger change than I want to make before 1.5 is 
cut.  I really want to rototill ibcs2 into compat_svr3 but that's too
much for now.

>Or am I missing something (very possible)?  My main interest stems from
>a back-burner desire to get A/UX (svr2) emulation on mac68k at least
>partially working, now that we have some MI COFF goo, and that is
>probably able to benefit from this code, but is certainly not IBCS...

I don't know about svr2 but the ibcs2 stuff will run most vax srv3 programs.


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