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