Solaris 10 binary compatibility

hello everybody,
I need some help. my application can run on solaris 2.6 x86 and solaris 9 x86 but not on solaris 10 x86. can anybody suggested to me what are the wor around that I can try to make my application also run on solaris 10 x86.

That's what I expected, but if you look at:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ontheinside/
They say:
Guaranteed application compatibility from release to release as well as between SPARC and x86 platforms so you can run the same OS from your desktop to your datacenter.
???

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That's what I expected, but if you look at:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ontheinside/
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???

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Edited by: tzscl2 on Dec 12, 2007 12:52 AM

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AmadeuBarbosa wrote:
I'm working in a project that uses Orbix [1] third-party libraries. I have installed the Sun Studio 12 on Solaris 10 SPARC but I have got some strange segfault problems (the exactly same code works fine in a Linux box - using g++). I read the 1.4 section of Sun Studio 12 C++ Userguide [2] but I have a doubt:I don't think 1.4 Binary Compatibility Verification applies in your case. It's referring to processor capability to execute certain (new) instructions; if your third-party libraries were compiled a while ago, it's highly unlikely they use instructions not implemented by the processor you have.
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