From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:05:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110404200527.GB2000@fangle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimNF5+cAWsgQrNgbBOtGbgwpWbWKg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:18:12PM +0300, Pavel Zholkover wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > PS: Would anybody like to summarise for us plebs whether there is any
> > convergence looming between Go and Plan 9 on the x64 front? It seems
> > sad to miss a chance to add a peer-reviewed and thoroughly tested 64-bit
> > toolchain to Plan 9.
>
> the basic runtime support (not the current syscall and os changes)
> involved changes to 8l and some C and 386 specific assembly in
> pkg/runtime. I guess this could be re-done for 6l + x64 code in
> runtime. The question is whether it is a useful application of
> developers time at this stage (it would be still cross-compiled) and
> the 386 runtime has not been properly tested.
>
I agree that focussing on x64 when there isn't a working target would be
pointless, if intriguing. I guess the question then belongs in the Plan
9 camp: are we going to see an x64 Plan 9 development soon? and is the
availability of the 6? chain in the Go sources helpful in arriving there?
++L
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2011-04-02 22:56 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-02 23:00 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-02 23:52 ` David Leimbach
2011-04-03 0:04 ` ron minnich
2011-04-03 0:04 ` ron minnich
2011-04-03 0:11 ` ron minnich
2011-04-03 0:16 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-03 0:09 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-03 7:57 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-03 2:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-03 2:48 ` Rob Pike
2011-04-03 5:07 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-03 18:50 ` Steve Simon
2011-04-03 20:57 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-03 7:45 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-03 7:51 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-03 9:16 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-03 21:13 ` Anthony Martin
2011-04-03 21:16 ` Anthony Martin
2011-04-03 21:23 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-03 22:30 ` Anthony Martin
2011-04-04 7:37 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-04 17:27 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-04 19:18 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-04 20:05 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2011-04-04 20:11 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-04 20:33 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 4:52 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-04 23:10 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 4:33 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-05 4:56 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 6:37 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-05 19:06 ` Yaroslav
2011-04-05 20:14 ` Paul Lalonde
2011-04-06 13:43 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-09 17:51 ` Sergey Kish
2011-04-09 18:24 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-09 18:34 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-03 21:24 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04 15:18 ` ron minnich
2011-04-04 15:59 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04 23:09 ` ron minnich
2011-04-04 23:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04 23:27 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 4:00 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 4:22 ` Russ Cox
2011-04-05 4:47 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-05 5:11 ` Russ Cox
2011-04-05 5:44 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-05 5:53 ` Russ Cox
2011-04-05 15:48 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 17:33 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 17:33 ` David Leimbach
2011-04-05 17:32 ` David Leimbach
2011-04-05 17:36 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 17:42 ` David Leimbach
2011-04-05 17:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-05 17:48 ` David Leimbach
2011-04-05 10:42 ` Anthony Martin
2011-04-03 9:40 Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-03 10:34 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-03 14:42 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-03 14:57 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-03 15:43 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-03 16:25 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-03 17:46 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-06 7:27 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-03 17:43 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-04-03 17:58 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-03 18:20 ` Rob Pike
2011-04-03 20:45 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-03 16:49 Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-03 17:36 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-04 19:19 Russ Cox
2011-04-05 19:15 Jason Catena
2011-04-06 13:27 Joel C. Salomon
2011-04-06 16:16 ` David Leimbach
2011-04-09 18:53 Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-09 19:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-09 22:01 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-10 5:07 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-10 6:28 ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-04-10 9:15 ` Lucio De Re
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