IDS 10 Solaris Compatibility
Markus Bschorer asked whether an IDS 10 FC8 level 0 archive from Solaris 9 64-bit SPARC could be restored on Solaris 10 x86 64-bit. Neil Truby expected it not to work. Art Kagel confirmed it is not binary compatible because x86 is little-endian and SPARC big-endian, and agreed that SPARC to Linux x86 fails for the same reason.
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Hi all, does anybody know whether an IDS Level-0 Archive, taken from IDS 10 FC 8 under solaris 9 / 64 bit /sparc, can be restored on a IDS 10 FC 8 solaris 10 / 64 bit / x86 ? Or in a short form: Is sparc/64bit "IDS-compatible" to x86/64bit? Thanks in advance for any answer! Grettings Markus
"Markus Bschorer" <mb@worxbox.com> wrote in message news:4af7e8fb$1$6732$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net... > Hi all, > > does anybody know whether an IDS Level-0 Archive, taken from IDS 10 FC 8 > under solaris 9 / 64 bit /sparc, can be restored on a IDS 10 FC 8 solaris > 10 > / 64 bit / x86 ? > > Or in a short form: Is sparc/64bit "IDS-compatible" to x86/64bit? > > Thanks in advance for any answer! > > Grettings > Markus Try it and please let us know. I think that it will almost certainly NOT work.
No, not binary compatible at all. The x86 platform is little-endian integers and floats while Sparc is big-endian. Art Art S. Kagel Oninit (www.oninit.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Oninit, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly or implicitly. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Markus Bschorer <mb@worxbox.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > does anybody know whether an IDS Level-0 Archive, taken from IDS 10 FC 8 > under solaris 9 / 64 bit /sparc, can be restored on a IDS 10 FC 8 solaris > 10 > / 64 bit / x86 ? > > Or in a short form: Is sparc/64bit "IDS-compatible" to x86/64bit? > > Thanks in advance for any answer! > > Grettings > Markus > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >
"Art Kagel" <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.274.1257765755.6236.informix-list@iiug.org... No, not binary compatible at all. The x86 platform is little-endian integers and floats while Sparc is big-endian. So SPARC-> Linux x86 would not work for exactly the same reason?
correct Art S. Kagel Oninit (www.oninit.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Oninit, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly or implicitly. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: > > "Art Kagel" <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.274.1257765755.6236.informix-list@iiug.org... > No, not binary compatible at all. The x86 platform is little-endian > integers and floats while Sparc is big-endian. > > So SPARC-> Linux x86 would not work for exactly the same reason? > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >