Welcome to the Portable Code page.

Here are links to resources I have found during my study of portable binaries, for the Amiga Portable Binary System.

This is rapidly becoming the general "Cool technology" page... :)

Ghost Ghostscript - to view the Acrobat and Postscript files in many of these links, get/install this program.

Portable Object Code: A short paper giving an overview of what Portable Object Code is.
Amiga Portable Binaries: This is an experimental project to bring a portable binary system to the Amiga.
lcc, A Retargetable Compiler for ANSI C: lcc is an ANSI-C compatible C compiler that is well documented and hence suitable for academic research and experimentation.
Abstract Syntax Description Language: ASDL is an experimental compiler Intermediate Representation system which works currently with lcc.
Michael Franz: Very interesting documents on, among other things, SDE - a working system for portable binaries.
Semantic Dictionary Encoding: Here's the document (in Acrobat format) describing SDE, by Michael Franz.
The case for Universal Symbol Files: Here's a (very hard to read) document about Universal Symbol Files, by Michael Franz.
Juice: An application of SDE in a Java-like plug-in system for web browsers. Source available...
HPANDF: High Performance ANDF (Architecture Neutral Distribution Format): Another method for portable binaries.
ANDF Projects at the Open Group Research Institute: More stuff about ANDF.
Slashdot:Feature:Whatever Happened to ANDF?: I wonder too, since this was now a year ago...
Machine-Independent Support for Garbage Collection, Debugging, Exception Handling, and Concurrency: Something about a new language called C--, meant to be a "portable assembly" language.
Exokernel: A new OS architecture?
UDI - Uniform Driver Interface: Here's a great idea - a standard for device drivers.
Dawson Engler: Some interesting things on this fellow's page, pertaining to dynamic code generation, compilers, etc.
`C (Tick-C): `C is an extension of C that allows dynamic code generation