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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:59:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3F92CD-00DC-41E2-960F-8E092A993F5D@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d99f5e1ac63934b6ac74f4a2c680369f@quintile.net>


On 2007-Nov-12, at 11:39 , Steve Simon wrote:

> Is the "problem" more the lack of g++ and perhaps
> glibc than the gcc C compiler itself or am I
> missing somthing.

I find that > 90% of the problem is code that makes use of all the  
__(foo)__ attribute crud in function declarations.  It shouldn't be  
difficult to write a tool to strip that nonsense out.

Alternatively you could teach the compilers to recognize and ignore  
those constructs, but my personal preference is to just elide the bits  
from the source at import. Even ignoring them lends them more  
credibility than my morals allow ;-P

-lyndon


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-11 20:44 [9fans] " Christopher Nielsen
2007-11-11 20:54 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-12  5:28 ` ron minnich
2007-11-12 14:19   ` David Leimbach
2007-11-12 15:40   ` [9fans] " prem
2007-11-12 19:01     ` ron minnich
2007-11-12 19:39       ` Steve Simon
2007-11-12 21:39         ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-12 22:39           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-12 23:21             ` Steve Simon
2007-11-12 23:32             ` William Josephson
2007-11-12 23:55               ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-12 23:52                 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-13  0:00                 ` William K. Josephson
2007-11-13  0:53                 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-13  0:57                   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-13  1:32                     ` [9fans] Re: Ruby port ( off topic ) fernanbolando
2007-11-14 21:50                 ` [9fans] Re: Ruby port y i y u s
2007-11-13  0:27             ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-13  0:33             ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13  0:35             ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-13  0:50             ` [9fans] Fortran Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13  0:52               ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13  1:08                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13  1:08                 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-13  1:48                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13  1:12                 ` [9fans] Money, guns, and lawyers Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13  1:41                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13  1:59                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13  2:02                       ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-14 16:55                 ` [9fans] Fortran plan9
2007-11-14 17:05                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-14 19:45                   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-14 20:04                     ` Uriel
2007-11-14 20:09                       ` William K. Josephson
2007-11-13  0:59         ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2007-11-13  1:23           ` [9fans] Re: Ruby port Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2007-11-13  1:25           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-14 19:05         ` ron minnich
2007-11-14 19:14           ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14 19:19             ` ron minnich
2007-11-14 19:25               ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-14 19:53                 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-14 20:43                   ` Robert William Fuller
2007-11-14 21:15                     ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-14 21:22                 ` ron minnich
2007-11-14 23:04                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-15 23:12                   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-14 19:36               ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-14 19:45                 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14 20:16                   ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-14 21:00                     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14 21:12                     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-14 23:12                     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-14 19:37               ` Federico G. Benavento
2007-11-18  3:32                 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-18 23:28                   ` Federico G. Benavento
2007-12-02 22:55 ` [9fans] " Kim Shrier
2007-12-02 23:12   ` Federico G. Benavento
2007-12-03  5:11     ` Charles Forsyth
2007-12-03  5:13       ` lucio

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