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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.141024.28389@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:10:24 GMT
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- In article <josef.712480693@uranium>, mollers.pad@sni.de (Josef Moellers) writes:
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- | There's more to this than just the executables. But even then,
- | recompilation isn't so very simple. Things that spring to my mind are:
- | word size, signed vs. unsigned characters (in case Your compiler changes
- | with the hardware, which it usually does), pointer alignment ...
- | Then the differences in the operating system that might/will change.
- | Perhaps the new architecture doesn't support Your ancient language
- | ("Soory sir, wo don't do FORTRAN/IV any more")?
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- Hey, I said source. Anything other than ANSI C is some proprietary
- object format, right? ;-)
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- Yes, in my youth I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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