[ros-kernel] Different Hardware Architectures

[KJK::Hyperion]

At 23.00 26/04/2004, you wrote:
>Actually, they really did this with when porting VMS to another hardware 
>platform. You don't really need to decompile, just to recompile, by 
>translating instructions for one arch to another.

There was a famous program called FX!32 that did this on Windows NT/Alpha 
for x86 binaries. After recompiling them, it wrote them back to the disk, 
as native executables, and it worked in the background, with no need for 
direct user intervention. It won't work for architectures with different 
endianness, though - how will you convert the data sections?