From: "AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Not-emulators (was AMD processors and assembly language)
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> To me, an "emulator" is something that translates one machine
> language to another on the fly (either by interpreting or dynamic
> recompilation).  For example, NES and Java programs run on emulators.

But Java doesn't really have it's own machine language, it's bytecode.  So
Java programs don't really run under an emulator, they run under an
interpreter, right?  Unless they have made a native Java processor when I
wasn't looking?

> So it runs a DJGPP 2 program.  Would the DJGPP version of GCC run?
> If so, who needs the cross-compiler (and all the build headaches)?

More than likely it would run correctly, I haven't used DOSEMU extensively.
But using linux/cross-compiling is better, because you get all the wonderful
benefits of being in linux.

AndrewJ