(386) Unix (In)compatibilities Summary
Steven L. Baur
baur at spp2.UUCP
Mon Aug 22 06:20:25 AEST 1988
in article <1988Aug19.200035.5056 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, woods at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) says:
> ...
> I wouldn't call it coincidence. I would have been VERY suprised if
> something didn't work.
UNIX binaries are not in general compatible across versions of UNIX for the
same CPU.
For example, most MC68k Unix systems call programs
_start(argc, argv, envp)
char *argv[], **envp;
On the Unixpc programs are called
_start(argv, envp)
char *argv[], **envp;
and the startup routine calculates argc.
steve
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