From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1889589c4548cc183225de2c68a87b89@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:17:44 -0700 From: geoff@collyer.net In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180606071615m7791cda6m6374347c3b5f797e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-ddqraprfprdxjxhvjboeuunmyu" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5e624084-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-ddqraprfprdxjxhvjboeuunmyu Content-Disposition: ainline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That is grotesque, but I suspect that ken's compilers could be made to handle arbitrarily-long input lines without too much effort, based on related work I've done in the past. --upas-ddqraprfprdxjxhvjboeuunmyu Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: ainline Received: from collyer.net ([216.240.55.178]) by collyer.net; Wed Jun 7 16:19:22 PDT 2006 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by collyer.net; Wed Jun 7 16:19:21 PDT 2006 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 451CF6356F for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:15:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 65EA16334C for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:15:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (psuvax1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23282-01-41 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:15:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 0295963230 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:15:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so252840nfe for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:15:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=d9UCbk9e8qpk8mEFrmc2lhk+2/kvsmsOnMljH1C3CiG/iyHINWOa+gLUhCqlcIHonbZ3062OP3criEPlgpUUDj1mnvJvu0wkHrFErOjpJVnNoYs8Xb0jsjZ0QSrPTZr0OeK9uJUEE2gEZ8AO6Nx9AlnlYfqlzJxHF8GDo+6ITXw= Received: by 10.49.65.12 with SMTP id s12mr946890nfk; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.57.13 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <14ec7b180606071615m7791cda6m6374347c3b5f797e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:15:32 -0600 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9 In-Reply-To: <0687d9b7f3ee8d0f6da02f7c9af09b9f@collyer.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200606071450.40128.corey_s@qwest.net> <0687d9b7f3ee8d0f6da02f7c9af09b9f@collyer.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces+geoff.9fans=collyer.net@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+geoff.9fans=collyer.net@cse.psu.edu > it would seem more satisfying to write a gcc-to-c preprocessor. even that doesn't always help. observe the following result from such preprocessing (which caused 8c to choke, having set the maximum length of a line of C code to be no greater than 32K characters): http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/screenshots/ffmpeg.gif --upas-ddqraprfprdxjxhvjboeuunmyu--