On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:37:12PM -0700, Steven Edwards wrote:
--- Todd Vierling tv@pobox.com wrote:
You should be aware that NT on Alpha was *NOT* a LP64 operating system (whereas Windows on IA64 is indeed LP64), and I'm presuming that the "alpha-pe" is targeting the classical NT/Alpha configuration. The ARC BIOS that was used to load NT created a memory map that simulated a 32-bit memory space, thus essentially making an Alpha behave much like an x86 -- well, sort of.
A Wine compiled as Win64 will likely not be able to run Alpha NT binaries. However, it might work reasonably well to compile apps with Winelib.
I dont really care so much about being compatible with Alpha NT stuff. I know Marcus broke the NT PPC compatiblity stuff for his Winelib port so I think its a non-issue for anyone here.
Side note: The ABI is broken just for 1 register (TEB), since it is used by the Linux/PPC ABI.
Ciao, Marcus