Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 1998 20:36:58 -0700 | From | Todd Larason <> | Subject | Re: Are applications for Linux platform specific? |
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On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 02:47:41PM +0200, David Woodhouse wrote: > As I understand it, Unix98 compliant programs linked against glibc should run > transparently on any operating system that glibc is present on, as long as the > processor remains the same.
Unix98 is an interface standard, not a binary standard. You're confusing it with 86open, which as the name implies is x86-specific. There are also various ABIs, mostly companions to the SVID, and more or less obsolete.
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