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Date:4 Jan 2005 13:24:17 -0000 
Subject:AIX and OSX -- a reply to an earlier question 
From:Aaron Sloman 
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Tom Khabaza asked a colleague who knew about the AIX version of poplog
who replied

> "there's no reason to expect it should work at all when cross-compiled
> to another platform. The processor may be similar but the constraints on
> code generation in terms of register usage, stack frame layout and
> inter-module calls are imposed as much by the operating environment as
> the hardware and the OS X/BSD/Mach environment is unlikely to have much
> in common with AIX."

I suppose that merely indicates that nothing from the AIX port
can be trusted, though it may be a useful guide in some cases!

I would not expect AIX and OSX on PPC to differ as much as Windows
and Linux on PC ??

Aaron