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- From: Avi Lev <avil@sapiens.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Will the PPC split up the Amiga community?
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:22:05 +0200
- Organization: Sapiens Technologies
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- Jolyon Ralph wrote:
- >
- > > you know how it will work on Ami ? i.e. mix PPC code & 68k code ?
- > > for example what about emulated 68k code doing lib calls of
- > > a PPC-code lib ?
- >
- > No. And I'd like to know that ASAP....
- >
- > Jolyon
-
- it will NEVER work properly since the register mappings are completely different between
- the 2 processors, and if functions in libraries, written in PPC native code, return the
- result in some PPC register, it will not have to be in d0 under 68k emulation when it gets
- back to the calling routine running under emulation.
-
- Avi Lev.
-