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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9ee
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:50:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2AFE29E7-7D07-4CEE-8FFD-7841B35CC563@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1aafb4d82f8d9e98068363acfd5b0f8@quanstro.net>

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If I'm reading brucee correctly, he's cross compiling using kencc but  
running natively; there's no "native" compiler involved, just a (very  
old-school seeming) loader program and his system-call thunks.  Clever.

Paul

On 10-Aug-07, at 6:41 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:

> On Fri Aug 10 20:45:06 EDT 2007, bruce.ellis@gmail.com wrote:
>> the only issue is calling in and out, the two thunks.  you write
>> a small bit of assembly language for these, again and again
>> until you get it right.  there are no other compiler clashes.
>>
>> brucee
>
> sorry.  i'm not following at all.  are you using ken's compiler?
>
> if not, how do you deal with unnamed structures.  if so, don't
> you have to do a lot dealing with object file formats?
>
> - erik
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-11  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <775b8d190708101742l7755885du92fc1ac4b84bd4ce@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-11  1:41 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-11  2:50   ` Paul Lalonde [this message]
2007-08-11  4:33     ` Bruce Ellis
2007-08-11  5:10       ` Anthony Sorace
2007-08-11  0:14 Bruce Ellis
2007-08-11  0:24 ` erik quanstrom

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