Feature-Based Portability

Authors: 

Glenn S. Fowler, David G. Korn, John J. Snyder and Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Abstract: 

Current computing platforms encompass a dizzying variety of hardware and software. A software application may live or die based on how portable it is. Much has been written and talked about how to enhance portability. But few tools are available to support writing portable code and, more importantly, to encode porting knowledge. This paper describes IFFE, a tool and an accompanying programming style that supports software portability. IFFE has enabled the porting and construction of many large software applications on heterogeneous platforms with virtually no user intervention.

BibTeX
@inproceedings {252313,
author = {Glenn S. Fowler and David G. Korn and John J. Snyder and Kiem-Phong Vo},
title = {{Feature-Based} Portability},
booktitle = {USENIX 1994 Very High Level Languages Symposium ( USENIX 1994 Very High Level Languages Symposium)},
year = {1994},
address = {Santa Fe, NM },
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-1994-very-high-level-languages-symposium/feature-based-portability},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}
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