Re: [9fans] Stack initialisation

[forsyth@vitanuova.com]

>>With a bit of luck, there will be a community (are you listening,
>>Charles?)  of interested parties willing to put in some effort and
>>supplement Bell Labs' offering with some of our own.

yes, although I'm busy enough not to want to support Alef as well.
i'm not sure I would do so if I had the time.  I had only a few Alef
programs and I converted one set to C <thread.h> and the
other set to Limbo.

on the other hand, if you or someone else is still keen, i can contribute
the powerpc Alef port i did a few years ago for the 2nd edition.
i did it mainly to have Acme on the powerpc.

the use of a different calling sequence contributes to the nuisance
of maintaining Alef, because all the libraries need to be converted
(and in fact was not done completely last time).  sometimes that's good,
when they weren't previously thread-safe, but often it's just a nuisance
and a headache for maintenance.