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From: aoki@faerie.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Object Translator (was Re: Register Scoreboarding)
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Date: 10 May 89 16:23:38 GMT
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In article <19162@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>Actually, a lot of object-code translation has been used already:
 [ three commercial examples ]
>	4) A PIXIE variant done at Berkeley to convert MIPS code -> SPARC
>		code (!)

Actually, the MIPS to SPARC translator (done by Fred Horman and Mike Yang)
chewed on assembler files (.s -> .s, not .o -> .o).

Hmm.  Are there any examples of object code translation that *haven't*
been done by MIPS or using MIPS processors .. ?  :-)
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