[Info-vax] VSI plans to offer an IA64 to X86 binary translator similar to AEST?

[gezelter at rlgsc.com]

On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:49:27 PM UTC-4, Rod Regier wrote:
> We have internally coded build procedures for source programs
> that would have to be bootstrapped before we could compile from scratch from the source on a new OpenVMS architecture.
> 
> We used AEST in our early phase A=>I64 bootstrap to accomplish that.
> 
> We don't have separately coded procedures to build our build tools only using OS components and compilers.  Didn't need them up to now since VEST and AEST were available for the early phase.
> 
> Thus our interest in a binary translator for IA64 to X86 for OpenVMS.
> (IEST?).

Rod,

Whether an IA64->x86-64 translator would be part of the effort has been long announced. The Alpha->x86-64 translator was always a different story.

If one has special build tools, one can modify them to generate x86-64 "code", then access the resulting files from the native environment. Presuming of course, that one has the sources for the tools.

There are a variety of ways to "skin" this particular "cat", but more details would be needed than are presently available.

- Bob Gezelter, hjttp://www.rlgsc.com