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Re: Assembler

From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
To: "Krzysztof Duleba" <krzysan at skrzynka dot pl>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:20:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Assembler
References: <AE2AA130827456459AA497E8C9D6EA00412C13@pauex2ku02.agere.com> <c0vr3u$oqu$1@sea.gmane.org>
Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>

At 09:04 AM 2/18/2004, Krzysztof Duleba you wrote:
>Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>> By asking for int 0x80 support, you're really asking
>> for the ability to run precompiled Linux applications.
>
>What do you mean by "precompiled"?


He means Linux ix86 binaries running unmodified on Windows.
That was a goal of "LINE" <http://line.sourceforge.net/>.


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References:
- RE: Assembler
  - From: Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
- Re: Assembler
  - From: Krzysztof Duleba

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