Re: [9fans] 9ee

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

that's right. the only thing that needs a native compiler
is the launcher and Mr Syscall.

9eekern is of course compiled with kencc.

brucee

On 8/11/07, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
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> If I'm reading brucee correctly, he's cross compiling using kencc but
> running natively; there's no "native" compiler involved, just a (very
> old-school seeming) loader program and his system-call thunks.  Clever.
>
> Paul
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> On 10-Aug-07, at 6:41 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
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> > On Fri Aug 10 20:45:06 EDT 2007, bruce.ellis@gmail.com wrote:
> >> the only issue is calling in and out, the two thunks.  you write
> >> a small bit of assembly language for these, again and again
> >> until you get it right.  there are no other compiler clashes.
> >>
> >> brucee
> >
> > sorry.  i'm not following at all.  are you using ken's compiler?
> >
> > if not, how do you deal with unnamed structures.  if so, don't
> > you have to do a lot dealing with object file formats?
> >
> > - erik
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