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- From: mash@mips.com (John Mashey)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: MVC and MVCL (was Re: RISC Mainframe)
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 21:27:25 GMT
- Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <l6rkltINN88q@spim.mips.com>
- References: <1992Jul19.212901.8857@bcars64a.bnr.ca> <GLEW.92Jul20084651@pdx007.intel.com> <1992Jul20.154604.12548@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Jul20.154604.12548@bcars64a.bnr.ca> schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
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- >Clearly then, you belong to the compile-code-for-each-different-machine
- >school of administration. I think I will start a disk drive company to
- >supply your disk requirements :-)
-
- 1) Some systems support dynamic-linked shared libraries for a lot of
- other reasons; that's one way to do it.
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- 2) if it really makes a difference, it's not all that hard to have
- a function that checks once to see which machine is there, andthen choose
- one of several versions of the code, 8after* checking to see that the
- move-length is long enough to be interesting.
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