From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5b89693ff647f1ad780d21c8d1981ef5@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc From: Charles Forsyth Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:44:06 +0100 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-loszedlfzfvtjjdivpffkxncwg" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 365560da-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-loszedlfzfvtjjdivpffkxncwg Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i must say i don't see the point though. in many ways, ?[acl] are attractive as a whole. (the way it is done and the distribution of the work is part of the point, although it's worth noting that the arrangement isn't novel to it.) going back to .s production seems a retrograde step to me. indeed, some thought so even in the 1970s! it's fairly typical of gnu to have stuck with it. --upas-loszedlfzfvtjjdivpffkxncwg Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by lavoro; Wed Apr 12 14:04:00 BST 2006 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 05D435AFE8 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:02:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 49FF763E5F for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:01:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (psuvax1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05434-01-11 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:01:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from holo.morphisms.net (holo.morphisms.net [216.254.78.15]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id A67D863561 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:00:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by holo.morphisms.net (Postfix, from userid 124) id E0DBF1E8C4D; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:59:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from x40.com (foobar@c-65-96-190-220.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [65.96.190.220]) by holo.morphisms.net with SMTP; for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:59:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rsc@swtch.com) X-Avenger: version=0.7.6; receiver=holo.morphisms.net; client-ip=65.96.190.220; client-port=60285; syn-fingerprint=5840:48:1:60:M1460,S,T,N,W2 Linux 2.4/2.6; data-bytes=0 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc From: "Russ Cox" Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:01:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200604121118.k3CBIqj5013062@skeeve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces+forsyth=terzarima.net@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+forsyth=terzarima.net@cse.psu.edu > How hard would it be to teach kenc to generate .s files and use > the system assembler/loader? Or are there calling convention > issuees as well? There are calling convention differences and you'd also have to emit debug info, but this would probably not be too bad an intermediate step. Russ --upas-loszedlfzfvtjjdivpffkxncwg--