Re: Moving VAX into 21 century :-)

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

The ABI used by native binaries is orthogonal to that used by binaries running in an emulation.  E.g. the ARM port has an emul supporting the old (pre-EABI) ATPCS ABI, while EABI is native.

-- thorpej
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> On Sep 5, 2019, at 6:10 PM, Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Does NetBSD on VAX not need to be compatible with VAX 4.3BSD or Ultrix[1] binaries?
> 
> I’d naïvely expect NetBSD to use the standard calling conventions for an architecture (if such a thing exists) as part of interoperating with other code written for that architecture.
> 
>  — Chris
> 
> [1]  I’m just going to assume Unix people won’t care about running VMS binaries…
>