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Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2006 11:24:42 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:58:35AM -0700, Corey wrote:
> 
> Two questions - quite likely naive, so please be kind!
> 
> #1 - How difficult approximately would it be to port a
> more current release of gcc to plan9, say 4.1?

  The gcc source code is pretty messy. But let me ask you
  a different question -- what exactly do you want to
  achieve with gcc ?

> "If you have gcc on plan 9, will simply compiling the unix code work?"

  It might, but IMHO it'll defeat the purpose.

Thanks,
Roman.