The binary compatibility standard

Author

Anderson, Alice ; Cruess, Michael ; Wiencek, Edward

Author_Institution

Motorola Inc., Austin, TX, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

Feb. 27 1989-March 3 1989

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

37

Abstract

An overview is presented of the binary compatibility standard (BCS) for the Motorola M88000 family. This standard has defined the interface between the operating system kernel and the binary executable application. Specifically, the BCS describes the data types, common object file format, the memory map, entry into the user process, signal handling, common header file values, system calls. and required files and installation procedures. The result is a detailed standard that can be used by systems and applications developers to separately develop systems and applications that will run together without further modifications. In addition, when developing software packages, application vendors will no longer have to develop several versions of the same package because the same version will run on a wide range of systems. In turn, system vendors will be able to provide their users with a large library of applications.<>

Keywords

microprocessor chips; standards; Motorola M88000 family; binary compatibility standard; binary executable application; common header file; common object file format; data types; memory map; microprocessor chip; operating system kernel; signal handling; system calls; Application software; Code standards; Hardware; Operating systems; Product development; Software packages; Software standards; Software systems; Standards development; Trademarks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

COMPCON Spring '89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage, Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1909-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1989.301899

Filename

301899