Results of Aries Testing
Extensive validation testing was performed on random code sequences using both PA-RISC and Itanium architectures and comparing the results.
The results were unequivocal: Aries was a successful design for a transition aid where it is not possible or desirable (for budgetary or resource reasons) to create a native Itanium binary. Aries allowed existing PA binaries to run on Itanium processors without recompilation. It was completely transparent to the user: automatically invoked by HP-UX, and able to support applications from versions of the operating system 11.0 to 11i. No user effort was required to use Aries.
In addition, it also supported most HP-UX 10.20 applications and both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. Its operation ...
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