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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 16bit C compilers
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:59:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c91a4db401975724efe6280366b6785@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

> Now that we talk about compilers, anyone used 8c to generate
> binaries on Linux? I saw that emu is compiled using `cc' and not 8c. 
> My actual question is: anyone used Plan 9 C extensions on programs that
> must run on Linux (eg emu)?

I got 8c/8l to generate a Linux 'hello world' program and then stopped.
vc/vl have been used to generate Irix binaries for a while.
I also have a basic C translator, from Plan 9 C to ANSI C.
All of these seem not quite reasonable.  If you want portable
programs, better to write portable code.

Russ


             reply	other threads:[~2002-02-15 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-15 13:59 Russ Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-22 16:15 anothy
2002-02-20 10:55 forsyth
     [not found] <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
2002-02-18 17:43 ` Richard Miller
2002-02-18 18:14   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-02-18 13:14 forsyth
2002-02-20 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-20 17:59   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-02-21  9:40   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-02-21 10:08     ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-21 18:06     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-21 22:46       ` George Michaelson
2002-02-22  9:58         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-22 10:58           ` George Michaelson
2002-02-15 14:08 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-15 13:57 Russ Cox
2002-02-15 14:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-18 10:14   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-02-18 11:37     ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-15 12:30 forsyth
2002-02-15 12:14 forsyth
2002-02-15 12:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-15  9:41 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-15  9:28 nigel
2002-02-14 16:15 steve.simon
2002-02-15  9:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn

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