On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 16:55:45 -0400, Rick Troth wrote:
>
>Porting applications to Linux-s390x has never been particularly difficult.
>The biggest challenge has always been such things as endianness.
>
How serious is that?  It has caused me problems only with careless
type-punning.

>    ...
>Porting to USS has (at least) two significant hurdles: EBCDIC
>
How much is that mitigated by Enhanced ASCII?  What residual
problems remain?  Unsupported library functions?

>    ... and a
>different system interface. Being Unix certified doesn't really help the
>*porting* process.
>
Aren't the C and system() interfaces the same?  What problems remain?

-- 
gil

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