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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:43:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort
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> so, here's a silghtly controversial (maybe) suggestion. Maybe my
> memory is wrong, but i believe the vx32 kernel is gcc-compiled. There
> is gcc for this CPU. It might be easier to start from the vx32 kernel
> and gcc to target this machine, rather than do a 64-bit MIPS port of
> the plan 9 C compiler. Or not: a few of the folks on this list could
> probably retarget in very short order (I'm not one of the,however).

vx32 relies on x86 segment registers.

- erik