From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:26:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <549679.14610.qm@web83915.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101115162414.GA1847@fangle.proxima.alt.za>
> to a single underlying (OS) platform, but failed (in a
> suprisingly ugly
> way) to cater for different target object formats, even
> though there were
> efforts to do so. In my opinion - and this is all I
> hold against Plan
> 9 - by shoehorning various target object formats in the
> linker/loader
> as options, they spoiled the consistency of the system.
I always had the impression that the object formats
used by the various ?l are more for kernels and the
various formats expected by loaders than for userland
apps. For userland, I would think the intent is for
there to be a single consistent object format (at least
for a given architecture).
BLS
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2010-11-04 9:36 Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04 9:47 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-04 10:20 ` Steve Simon
2010-11-04 11:30 ` Brantley Coile
2010-11-04 15:39 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-04 15:55 ` Stanley Lieber
2010-11-04 16:01 ` John Floren
2010-11-04 16:39 ` ron minnich
2010-11-04 16:57 ` Stanley Lieber
2010-11-04 17:01 ` Don Bailey
2010-11-04 17:19 ` Jeff Sickel
2010-11-04 22:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-05 1:41 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-05 3:50 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-05 7:11 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-05 7:55 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-05 13:31 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-05 15:16 ` C H Forsyth
2010-11-05 17:07 ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:18 ` Nick LaForge
2010-11-05 17:32 ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:39 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-11-05 17:55 ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:45 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-05 18:14 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-05 18:37 ` roger peppe
2010-11-05 19:06 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-08 11:04 ` roger peppe
2010-11-08 21:24 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-08 22:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-08 22:25 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-08 22:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-09 2:10 ` Jeff Sickel
2010-11-09 3:18 ` EBo
2010-11-09 8:10 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-13 19:15 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-05 20:37 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-06 0:55 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-06 2:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-06 20:24 ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 18:43 ` Bakul Shah
2010-11-13 19:24 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-14 2:17 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14 5:47 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-11-14 6:24 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14 8:13 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14 15:56 ` Jacob Todd
2010-11-14 16:24 ` ron minnich
2010-11-14 6:26 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-14 8:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-11-14 15:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14 17:46 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-14 22:16 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14 9:10 ` tlaronde
2010-11-14 9:32 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14 10:22 ` tlaronde
2010-11-14 10:50 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2010-11-14 11:47 ` tlaronde
2010-11-14 21:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-14 21:47 ` Ori Bernstein
2010-11-18 5:30 ` Joel C. Salomon
2010-11-18 5:57 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-18 22:50 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-19 2:06 ` Joel C. Salomon
2010-11-19 3:13 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-25 9:39 ` Greg Comeau
2010-11-15 4:29 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-15 5:05 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2010-11-15 15:48 ` Dan Cross
2010-11-15 16:24 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-15 17:26 ` Brian L. Stuart [this message]
2010-11-16 3:32 ` lucio
2010-11-16 4:53 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 5:09 ` lucio
2010-11-16 22:18 ` Christopher Nielsen
2010-11-15 18:11 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-11-15 20:04 ` Steve Simon
[not found] ` <79E9F966-3C4E-44D9-8B1F-D22C9548CE74@gnu.org>
2010-11-15 1:02 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-15 4:17 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-15 16:22 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-17 23:48 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-04 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-04 17:12 ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04 17:19 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-11-04 17:30 ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04 20:27 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-04 12:15 dexen deVries
2010-11-04 12:48 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-04 17:14 ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-17 7:38 Pavel Zholkover
2010-11-17 7:44 ` Lucio De Re
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