Re: CVS commit: syssrc

[Jim Wise <jwise%draga.com@localhost>]

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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Matt Thomas wrote:

>>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.

Cool.

>>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.

Very cool.  Hopefully, next weekend I'll get a chance to bang on this
for m68k then...

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                                Jim Wise
                                jwise%draga.com@localhost

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