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Asked: 2026-05-22T12:49:55+00:00

I want to study and compare executable file structure of elf, SPARC and PA-RISC.

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I want to study and compare executable file structure of elf, SPARC and PA-RISC.

To perform the studies I want to install OpenSolaris on an Intel machine (Core2Duo).
But I got a basic doubt will it work at all ?

I know SPARC has its own assembly – grew in suspicion if it will work or is valid thought at all.

I was aiming to write some programs disassemble them and with some help of tools study the file structures.

I don’t have any clue how to perform all this for HP-UX (PA-RISC); dont know any free OS for PA-RISC.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You won’t be able to run Sparc or PA-RISC executables on an intel processor. However, if all you want to do is to analyse the structure of these executables, all you need is suitable development tools.

    I haven’t checked, but I suspect OpenSolaris comes with development tools capable of analysing Solaris/sparc executables out of the box. But even other toolchains can do that. For example, GNU binutils (specifically the BFD library they use) support many architectures, including Sparc and PA-RISC. (If you use GNU binutils, make sure you get a full version, perhaps labeled as “for cross-compilation”, e.g. binutils-multiarch on Debian or Ubuntu)

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