From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B477DCE.3070209@comfortstore.net> References: <4B477DCE.3070209@comfortstore.net> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:02:06 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df11001081102p4bd3ae9ej68859ac560c6d7c5@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: lucio@proxima.alt.za Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on L4 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b96fb1a6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 actually, code that uses gcc seems to require massive rewrite just to accommodate different versions of gcc. This has been a huge problem for 10 years in coreboot. We just have to deal with it. Just look at the recent Linux security hole attributed to a gcc optimization ... Experience shows that the mods needed for plan 9 code for gcc can be less than the mods needed just to forward port code between different versions of gcc. It's quite amazing. ron