Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility?
To: Bill Dorsey <billd@lila.com>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/28/2001 22:14:05
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:12:05PM -0700, Bill Dorsey wrote:
> Nathan,
>
> You wrote:
> > I can't speak to the state of linux compat on the alpha, as I've never
> > tried it, but are there interesting Linux/Alpha applications that
> > don't also exist as OSF1/Tru64 applications? Our emulation of that is
> > pretty good.
> >
> Indeed there are. For instance, the Compaq Java runtime uses OSF1/Tru64
> calls that are not emulated by NetBSD. I'm not certain if the same is
> true of the compilers as I have not tried the OSF1/Tru64 C/C++ compilers.
> Are they publicly available like the Linux versions?
These are most likely MACH system calls. The compiler is not the issue
here.
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