On generalizations in networking software to encourage code portability

Author

Peters, Patrick ; Dearuz, R. ; Sung, Chiun-Teh ; Wang, Christine ; Meandzija, Branislav

Author_Institution

Texas Instrum., Dallas, TX, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

23-27 Apr 1989

Firstpage

261

Abstract

The principal issues involved in porting networking software are discussed and solutions that have been used to implement a standard environment interface to encourage code portability are reported. This interface has been designed to provide a uniform environment to protocol drivers generated by the Archetype language compiler. The structure of the present implementation is outlined and issues relating to the environment interface are elaborated. The implementation provides both portable data representation and portable systems services

Keywords

network operating systems; software portability; Archetype language compiler; code portability; environment interface; networking software; portable data representation; portable systems services; protocol drivers; standard environment interface; Access protocols; Code standards; Computer aided manufacturing; Design methodology; Hardware; Instruments; Intelligent networks; Libraries; Operating systems; Software standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '89. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Technology: Emerging or Converging, IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1920-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1989.101464

Filename

101464