Subject: Re: i386/m68k binary conversion
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/23/1996 01:18:00
Michael VanLoon writes:
>Yet, DEC seems to have done it quite successfully, with their MIPS ->
>Alpha converter, and their new x86 -> Alpha converter (for NT). In my
>experience, the MIPS/DECstation -> Alpha converter worked very well
>(never used the other one). How is that they were able to be so
>successful with binary conversion?
Machine code generated by compiles tends to be very schematic in my
experience. Translating machine code generated by humans is the hard
case.
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