[TUHS] Question about compiled programs on a newer machine type be usable ?

[Henry Bent]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 18:47, babydr DBA James W. Laferriere <
babydr at baby-dragons.com> wrote:

>         Hello all ,  Here I am again ,  Maybe my ? might be relative to
> the
> community .
>
>         I grabbed an archive of precompiled gnu software ,  During the
> extraction I got a 'warning' from a gzip'd tar & decided to dig into the
> underlying tarball to see if it was trully corrupted or repairable .
>
>         Tada ,  I did a silly and less'd one of the binary files and
> noticed
> that the underlying file was 'ar'd by
> /usr/local/alphaev6-dec-osf5.1b/bin/ar ,
> well all said and done My ol' as100 ain't a ev6 .
>
> So my Question ,  Could I use these programs that were created on a ev6
> cpu
> system on my ev4 ?


Under Tru64 any program compiled for any Alpha CPU will run on any other,
but there will be emulation overhead when executing instructions that your
CPU doesn't have.  On a much slower machine this could be pretty painful.
Not sure what you mean by an AS100 - do you have an AS1000?  Or an AS200
4/100?

-Henry
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