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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:31:16 +0300
From: R <0xef967c36@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc
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On 4/12/06, Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> How hard would it be to teach kenc to generate .s files and use
> the system assembler/loader? Or are there calling convention
> issuees as well?

that would probably mean merging the compiler
and the linker :) and yes there are calling convention
issues as well.

read the Ken Thompson paper about the compiler
(in the distribution).

PS.
someone was trying some time ago to teach gcc
generate native plan9 object file format.
did this get any result ?

Thanks.