From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:30:19 -0800 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:03 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>wrote:
> > Where did your C compiler come from? Someone probably compiled it with a
> C
> > compiler. Bootstrapping is a fact of life as a new compiler can't just
> be
> > culled from /dev/random or willed into existence otherwise. It takes a
> plan
> > 9 system to build plan 9 right? (This was not always true for infinitely
> > recursive reasons)
>
> ah, but where did your go compiler come from?
>
> - erik
>
> Well my Go compiler came from a plan 9 C compiler that came from a gcc
compiler, that came from the operating system distribution CD that shipped
with Mac OS X.
Someone at apple presumably bootstrapped that gcc build for Mac OS X from
another GCC build for Mac OS X, and that one probably goes back to some
version of OpenStep, all the way back to NeXTStep, and before that some
version of Unix most likely that bootstrapped NeXTStep.
A lot of that lineage was a guess. It's really difficult, for instance, to
bootstrap the GHC (Haskell) compiler from the intermediate C files it
generates these days, and you pretty much need a port of Haskell to your
platform in order get a port of haskell to your platform. It's a bit of an
undocumented black art as far as I can tell, but it was supposed to be
simpler :-).
Many lisp compilers/systems need a lisp compiler or system in place in order
to bootstrap them too.
Dave
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2011-01-29 22:47 [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk smiley
2011-01-29 22:54 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-29 22:58 ` Steve Simon
2011-01-30 1:16 ` smiley
2011-01-30 4:07 ` John Floren
2011-01-30 4:49 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-30 4:56 ` John Floren
2011-02-01 6:22 ` smiley
2011-02-01 6:47 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-02-01 6:54 ` John Floren
2011-01-29 23:24 ` [9fans] RESOLVED: " smiley
2011-01-29 23:41 ` Steve Simon
2011-01-30 14:19 ` [9fans] RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely Richard Miller
2011-01-30 14:28 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-31 18:02 ` smiley
2011-01-31 22:12 ` Steve Simon
2011-02-01 6:02 ` smiley
2011-02-01 6:26 ` Lucio De Re
2011-02-01 7:07 ` smiley
2011-02-01 7:22 ` Lucio De Re
2011-02-01 13:45 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-01 16:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-02-01 6:45 ` ron minnich
2011-02-01 17:51 ` smiley
2011-02-01 18:33 ` ron minnich
2011-02-01 19:16 ` jimmy frasche
2011-02-02 0:28 ` smiley
2011-02-02 0:42 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 0:47 ` ron minnich
2011-02-02 5:14 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: " smiley
2011-02-02 5:37 ` Scott Sullivan
2011-02-02 5:38 ` EBo
2011-02-02 15:54 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-02-02 12:54 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 13:48 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-02 17:47 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-02 17:53 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 18:07 ` tlaronde
2011-02-02 18:26 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-02 18:48 ` tlaronde
2011-02-02 19:26 ` Nick LaForge
2011-02-03 0:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-02-02 17:44 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-02 17:50 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 18:15 ` Jonathan Cast
2011-02-02 18:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 18:36 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-02 18:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 18:46 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-02 19:15 ` Jonathan Cast
2011-02-02 19:31 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 19:48 ` Jeff Sickel
2011-02-02 20:07 ` Jonathan Cast
2011-02-02 20:11 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 20:22 ` Jonathan Cast
2011-02-02 18:21 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-03 10:00 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, Greg Comeau
2011-02-02 18:03 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 18:30 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2011-02-18 5:23 ` ron minnich
2011-02-18 5:34 ` Paul Lalonde
2011-02-18 13:29 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 13:45 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-18 14:54 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-18 15:15 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-18 16:11 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 16:28 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-18 16:49 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 17:10 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-18 17:32 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 17:44 ` ron minnich
2011-02-18 19:28 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-18 19:33 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 19:49 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-18 18:43 ` Joseph Stewart
2011-02-18 17:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-02-18 17:12 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-18 16:53 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-18 16:59 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-18 17:07 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 17:11 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-18 17:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 17:52 ` John Floren
2011-02-18 18:46 ` Rob Pike
2011-02-18 19:15 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-18 19:26 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 19:46 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-18 20:15 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-18 21:06 ` John Floren
2011-02-18 22:21 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-18 23:39 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-19 10:26 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely Steve Simon
2011-02-19 15:09 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-19 20:09 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-19 21:15 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-20 23:49 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-21 14:47 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-19 16:57 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-02-19 15:36 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-24 10:09 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, Greg Comeau
2011-02-18 19:35 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely David Leimbach
2011-02-18 20:10 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-18 21:03 ` ron minnich
2011-02-18 23:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-02-24 10:09 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, Greg Comeau
2011-02-18 19:15 ` [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-21 5:08 ` smiley
2011-02-18 17:16 ` Russ Cox
2011-02-18 17:12 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-02-19 10:34 ` Steve Simon
2011-02-19 17:25 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-02 4:19 ` [9fans] " Federico G. Benavento
2011-02-02 19:15 ` smiley
2011-02-02 21:47 ` ron minnich
2011-02-03 3:35 ` smiley
2011-02-03 4:32 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-02-03 6:15 ` Lucio De Re
2011-02-03 7:54 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 9:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-02-03 13:01 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 13:40 ` roger peppe
2011-02-03 13:59 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 14:16 ` roger peppe
2011-02-03 14:17 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 14:24 ` roger peppe
2011-02-03 14:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-02-03 18:45 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-02-03 16:23 ` Noah Evans
2011-02-01 8:25 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-02-01 8:37 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-02-01 9:02 ` Federico G. Benavento
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2011-02-01 16:45 ` erik quanstrom
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2011-02-03 10:37 ` roger peppe
2011-02-03 10:48 ` Lucio De Re
2011-02-02 6:56 [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely Jacob Todd
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2011-02-02 7:25 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-02 7:25 ` Lucio De Re
2011-02-02 7:35 ` Nick LaForge
2011-02-02 17:45 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-02 19:19 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-03 0:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-02-03 0:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 0:52 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-02-03 0:50 ` ron minnich
2011-02-03 2:16 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-03 2:25 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-03 2:26 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 15:08 ` David Leimbach
2011-02-03 16:19 ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2011-02-03 17:41 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-03 18:11 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 18:33 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-03 18:54 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 19:40 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-03 20:33 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-04 7:16 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-04 14:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 18:29 ` Joseph Stewart
2011-02-03 8:35 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-02-03 8:56 ` EBo
2011-02-03 9:46 ` Charles Forsyth
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2011-02-03 9:50 ` Lucio De Re
2011-02-03 10:38 ` C H Forsyth
2011-02-03 12:07 ` EBo
2011-02-03 20:49 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-02-03 21:07 ` ron minnich
2011-02-03 21:32 ` Steve Simon
2011-02-03 23:19 ` EBo
2011-02-03 18:21 ` smiley
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