General Strategies for Portability

• Overview of Portability Strategies
• What are we trying to accomplish?
• Key Strategies
  • Control Interfaces
  • Isolate Dependencies
  • Think Portable
• Principal Techniques
  • Standardize the Interface
  • Port the other side
  • Translate the Interface
• Language Strategies
  • Standard Languages
  • Portable Compilers
  • Source Level Translation
• Standard Intermediate Forms
• Standard and Portable Libraries
• Operating System Strategies
  • Standard Operating System Interfaces
  • Portable Operating Systems
  • Interface Translation
• Architecture Strategies
  • Standard Architectures
  • Generic Architectures
  • Binary Translation