Vax to Alpha - Recompile Needed?

[Robert Edis]

Oops, I got it backwards sorry.

Blue

--- Robert Edis <robeconsult@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> G'day Steve
> 
> I believe as the VAX is a 32 bit processor and the
> Alpha is 64 bit you will have to recompile.  32 Bit
> compiled apps (executables) will run on the Alpha
> but
> I don'y know about PH because is it really only
> semi-compiled.
> 
> Instead of re-compiling you could simply run the
> source.  What is the client's aversion to the
> re-compile?  Do they think the source is incomplete
> or
> out-of-date?
> 
> BTW, did HP release OpenVMS for the Itanium
> processor
> yet?  Will PH run in that environment?  
> 
> Blue
> 
> --- Steve Heaslip <heaslips@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> > G'day all
> >  
> > We have a client that is running a legacy
> PowerHouse
> > system (7.10.g) on an
> > ageing Vax.
> > They want to move the application to an Alpha
> > (currently on the same cluster
> > as the Vax) running the same version of Open VMS
> and
> > the same version of
> > PowerHouse.
> > I've never moved a PowerHouse application to
> another
> > box without upgrading
> > SOMETHING - so I've always recompiled. But in this
> > instance the client is
> > insisting they do not want to recompile unless
> they
> > really have to.
> >  
> > Can anyone tell me if there's a need to re-compile
> > the code?
> >  
> >  
> > Regards,
> >  
> > Steve Heaslip
> >  
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> >  
> >  
> >  
> > 
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