[parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility

[Larry Dwyer]

At 07:40 PM 6/20/99 +0200, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
>How far do we want to or are we able to go with making constants identical
>between HPUX and Linux?
>
> ...
>The real thing which bothers me about this is that doing this means that
>HPUX and Linux are then allocating from the same numberspace, so where
>Linux has things which HPUX doesn't, HPUX might later allocate the same
>number for a different extension.
>

I would encourage converging the vector constants for Linux on PA with the
same constants for HP-UX on PA.

If there are some extra constants in Linux, I can arrange to have them
reserved in HP-UX.

Do not assume they are reserved until I post to this group (in other words,
every enq needs an ack).  It is best to send mail directly to me since I do
not read this mailing list as often as I ought to.


>(Of course, if HP want to add Linux binary compatibility to HPUX, now
>would be a great time to mention it :-)

Let's just say that we do not want to preclude binary compatibility at some
time in the future.


		Cheers,
		Larry