Subject: Re: dump and restore on the alpha port
To: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@nhh.no>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/26/1996 00:29:36
> Actually, they are _not_ sufficient: I can't dump from the alpha and
> restore on the i386 with this code.  I just can't figure out why.  :-(

So, does that normally work?  I.e. can you normally take dump images
from one little-endian box and restore them on another little-endian
box?  (you can't do this between endiannesses, so i could believe that
you couldn't do it between different machines of the same endianness.)

"Check the structure offsets and stuff."


chris