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I have an application which is OK on Solaris Sparc 7, and have ported the software to Solaris X86. Do I need a separate run of appcert for this?

April 26, 2017application Ok ported run separate Software Solaris sparc

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I have an application which is OK on Solaris Sparc 7, and have ported the software to Solaris X86. Do I need a separate run of appcert for this?

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Yes, those X86 binaries need to be separately exercised on their platforms and run through appcert. Note that in this case, appcert must be run again – because you are checking a different binary object (an x86 binary rather than a SPARC one). Since there are some minor differences between the Solaris SPARC and x86 ABI’s with regard to some of the compiler-emitted intrinsics for low-level use of the processor’s instruction set, there is a slim possibility that an x86 binary compiled from the same source code as a SPARC binary could have had unstable binary interfaces in the emitted x86 code.