Re: [9fans] Building new kernel.

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>]

>> not exactly. it will work on most Unix systems and
>> on Plan 9 without -T because nothing checks
>> external types across object module boundaries.  the linker/loader in both systems
>> will allocate in BSS the largest size seen for a given symbol,
>> so it doesn't matter whether int == long or not.
>
> by "work" you mean not generate an out-of-range
> memory access nor not produce unexpected values?
>
> - erik

i meant "pass muster", which i thought was the sense originally
intended (ie, link without diagnostic) but i see now that wasn't intended.
sorry.

anyhow, that's why it links without diagnostic elsewhere!