Re: MSVC++, Project and win32

From: George (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 11/17/98


On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Jourge Fuzz Bush wrote:

>One thing. This is offtopic but just a curious question.
>Shouldn't I be able to take a stand-alone exe file from win 95 and run
>it in linux. What the difference. They're both compiled asember. I think
>it should work as long as their is no system calls. Just something to
>think about.

Memory allocation is a system call.

(And that's just one example, there's many many more.)

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