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Status Not under consideration
Categories TPF Toolkit
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 8, 2024

See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

  • Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86
  • The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu)
  • Programs that we need to be ported to x86
    • The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, tpf-gcov, and etc)
    • Tpfobjpp
    • Tpfsochk
    • Offldr
    • IBM High-level Assembler (HLASM) 
Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Nov 5, 2024
    It has been determined that this is not viable or strategic for the IBM TPF lab.
  • Guest
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    Oct 31, 2024

    Hello. is there any update on your side for this request?

    Thank you.

  • Guest
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    Sep 23, 2024

    Up to 8 votes on this "Idea". Is there any status on the decision for making this happen?

    1 reply