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- From: umverou0@cc.umanitoba.ca (Michael Veroukis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Will the PPC split up the Amiga community?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:17:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- References: <4i01aq$r3g@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Do3nH5.11K@cix.compulink.co.uk> <314D0F1D.3BEC@sapiens.com>
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- In article <314D0F1D.3BEC@sapiens.com>, Avi Lev <avil@sapiens.com> wrote:
- >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.
-
- Hmm... Well, let's see... If the OS is emulating 68K code, then it's
- safe to assume that that program is not aware of PPC code, or perhaps
- even the new OS. If the New OS is only PPC, then only PPC programs would
- have access. There's ways around this, but I doubt they'd try and
- provide 68K programs to call PPC only routines.
- More likely then not, the library routines that the 68K emulator will
- call will simply be "glue" routines between the 68K emulator and the actual
- PPC ROM. In other words, all ROM routines can be executed in PPC code,
- and the results will be translated into something the 68K emulator can
- understand. Of course, this assumes that the OS is completely PPC code.
- I really hope they get real time semantic code generation working, so
- we don't store binaries on disk anymore. Once that is done, porting the
- AmigaOS to any CPU in world will be fairly easy.
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