From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:04:19 -0500 From: Latchesar Ionkov To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: patch/list applied/ape-dumb-autohell-fixes Message-ID: <20060214010419.GB14033@ionkov.net> References: <868f968d7388278f2eb848e4906f0775@cat-v.org> <43F0EA42.20406@lanl.gov> <20060214003941.GA13604@ionkov.net> <7871fcf50602131650t76b01e3ai1ead684c5472d651@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50602131650t76b01e3ai1ead684c5472d651@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: fe760728-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:50:05PM -0500, Joel Salomon said: > On 2/13/06, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: > > You want to use GNU binutils? It would be very hard to make GNU binutils to > > support Plan9 object file format. The options are to use ?c/?l/acid and lose > > the GNU binutils features, or to use some object format supported by GNU > > binutils and compile everything (even the kernel ;) with gcc and gnu binutils. > > Why would that be? Don't ?l use (a variant of) the a.out format? IIRC ?l produces executable that is a.out variant, but the input object files are very different than the .o files binutils support. Plan9 object files are binary encoded assembler instructions. Lucho