Re: Porting binaries from Solaris/SPARC to Linux/Intel

Tim E Sneddon <tesneddon@bigpond.com>
13 Aug 2004 17:26:05 -0400

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From: Tim E Sneddon <tesneddon@bigpond.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Aug 2004 17:26:05 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 04-08-057 04-08-064
Keywords: architecture, translator
Posted-Date: 13 Aug 2004 17:26:05 EDT

Jeff Kenton wrote:


> DEC had some binary translation tools to help customers move
> applications from SPARC and i386 (if I remember right) to the Alpha.
> Some of the folks who


I don't know about the SPARC translator, but there is FX!32 for
WindowsNT Alpha, mx for OSF/1 and VEST for OpenVMS Alpha. VEST
converts OpenVMS VAX images to OpenVMS Alpha and mx converts ULTRIX
MIPS for OSF/1 Alpha. There is a paper on how it works here:


        http://www.research.compaq.com/wrl/DECarchives/DTJ/DTJ809/DTJ809SC.TXT


FX!32 runs WindowsNT x86 binaries on WindowsNT Alpha. There is a paper
on how it works here:


        http://www.research.compaq.com/wrl/DECarchives/DTJ/DTJP01/DTJP01SC.TXT


These are both pretty interesting reads. They also have references to
other papers on related topics.


> built those products still lurk here and on comp.arch. I'm sure
> you'll get some answers. [I was on the fringes of that project.]


I've never worked for DEC (Compaq/HP), I just play with VMS.


Regards, Tim.


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