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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Can compile Plan9 C compiler for windows10?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:15:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6E4985CCD433A047C150CB78E1E10E05@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202103291414.12TEEIJP004120@freefriends.org>

Quoth arnold@skeeve.com:
> Hi Russ.
> 
> Thanks for this.  You are probably right, but it's always good to
> test against as many compilers as possible.
> 
> Out of curiousity, why is linking against the system libraries so
> hard?  I assume a port of kenc to Linux would have a driver program
> that would just invoke the system ld(1).  I'd think that getting
> the ABI and generation of ELF (or of standard Linux assembly language)
> correct would be the hard part.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

Kencc cooperates with the plan 9 linkers. It
produces neither textual assembly nor elf
relocatable objects, but a machine-dependent
"assembly bytecode".



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-29 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-28  8:13 saif.resun
2021-03-28  9:09 ` Richard Miller
2021-03-28  9:21   ` Sean Hinchee
2021-03-28 13:16     ` saif.resun
2021-03-28 15:08       ` ron minnich
2021-03-29  6:42         ` arnold
2021-03-29 14:04           ` Russ Cox
2021-03-29 14:14             ` arnold
2021-03-29 15:08               ` Charles Forsyth
2021-03-29 17:18                 ` arnold
2021-03-29 17:45                   ` Russ Cox
2021-03-29 17:55                     ` arnold
2021-03-29 17:58                     ` John Floren
2021-03-29 15:15               ` ori [this message]
2021-03-28 15:16       ` Paul Lalonde
2021-03-29  4:51       ` Ethan Gardener
2021-03-29  4:57     ` Ethan Gardener

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