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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:53:45 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc
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i've considered this.  would it be too much trouble to convert plan 9 object
files to elf? or to write a plan9-to-elf converter?

- erik

On Mon Apr 10 06:36:50 CDT 2006, brantley@coraid.com wrote:
> > i think the gcc folks have different goals.  they seem very interested in
> > lots of very sophisticated optimizations and support for every odd corner case.
>
> Or they might just like writing stuff for the compiler, personal
> entertainment.  Or they like seeing their names on gcc.gnu.org
> projects pages.  Or they really think that all this work makes some
> difference.  I don't know anyone who works on the beast, so I've no
> real clue as to why people continue to spend time on this monster.
> Let's just move Ken's C compiler everywhere.
>