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Re: Object Translator (was Re: Register Scoreboarding)

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From: John Mashey
Date: Wed, 10 May 1989 19:19
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In article <13553@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> aoki@faerie.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes:
>In article <19162@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>Actually, the MIPS to SPARC translator (done by Fred Horman and Mike Yang)
>chewed on assembler files (.s -> .s, not .o -> .o).
OOPS! thanx for the fix.

>Hmm.  Are there any examples of object code translation that *haven't*
>been done by MIPS or using MIPS processors .. ?  :-)
As noted in earlier mail on this, at least the MSDOS translaters
and the HP PA stuff are practical commercial things.  Many emulation technqiues
often rely on "on-the-fly" object translation to speed emulation.
-- 
-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Object Translator (was Re: Register Scoreboarding)
Message-ID: <19179@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 10 May 89 19:19:35 GMT
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Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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