On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:

> LLVM is written in C++, so you'd need C++ support on plan 9 first. Probably
> the easiest way to do that would be to add support for plan 9 binaries to
> clang, and cross-compile llvm for plan 9 with itself.
>
>
Yep.  I was thinking a cross compile of clang to Plan 9 would be the
starting point once LLVM is self-hosting (Is it?)


> At least, that's the path I'd take if I was interested in trying.
>

Likewise.  In the meantime it'd be nice to be able to build even just a
cross compiler to target Plan 9 :-).

Dave


>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:10:42 -0700, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've seen a little bit of information about trying to go to LLVM for
> > Inferno, and getting LLVM on Plan 9 natively (feasibility anyway), and I
> was
> > wondering if there's any official projects chasing this in earnest?
> >
> > Now that I've got an ARM and an x86 plan 9 instance up, I might have some
> > time, but I can tell you compilers are definitely not my specialty :-).
> >
> > Dave
>
>
> --
>     Ori Bernstein
>
>