NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/hp/9737

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!corax.udac.uu.se!irfu.se!jhd
From: [e-mail] (Jan D.)
Subject: Re: What is the 7xx series compatible with ?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:59:09 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Steve Taylor) writes:
>In comp.sys.hp, [e-mail] (Eric W. Sink) writes:
>| If I compile binaries on my 720, HPUX 8.07, will they run on any other
>| series of the HP 9000 ?  For example, I have heard of Series 800,
>| series 400, series 300, etc...  What am I compatible with, in theory ?
>
>Series 300/400 is out; they have a Motorola MC680x0 processor, not at all
>similar to PA-RISC.
>
>Series 8x7 should work, other things being equal.  For other Series 800,
>it can be done if you're careful.  You'll need to use the +DA1.0 compile
>option to exclude new PA-RISC 1.1 instructions.  Then, if you link against
>shared libraries or libraries you've built for PA 1.0, you should be OK.
>If you link against archive libraries, be sure that they're PA 1.0.  Use
>the file command for this; it will say either s800 or PA-RISC1.1 (based on
>my sample-of-two test).
>

You can't see if an archive library is PA1.1 or 1.0 with file, at least
not the file I got on 8.07:

Script started on Thu Aug 27 00:52:38 1992
jhd@kernow> cat > foo.c
foo() {}
^D
jhd@kernow> make foo.o
    cc -O -c foo.c
jhd@kernow> ar cvr libfoo.a foo.o
a - foo.o
jhd@kernow> file foo.o libfoo.a
foo.o:        PA-RISC1.1 relocatable object
libfoo.a:    archive file -s800 relocatable library
jhd@kernow> ^D

script done on Thu Aug 27 00:53:29 1992

BTW, what's your sample-of-two test?

    Jan D.