From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Go/Inferno toolchain (Was: comment and newline in
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:30:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinbV5Z6hx7MOU_nqM6iJaYRIuWcSYFQJKgGMtfU@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimcJK4wHYepMtx0_AURE8xoC5OAZRRE_LqIBAKd@mail.gmail.com>
I was sleep-deprived much of the week, so my memory is most likely not
exact (so hopefully Russ will provide a clarification), but I believe
he said something along the lines of pointing to the top of the stack
as a workaround. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, so that's
about as much of a hint as I can give at the moment.
-eric
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> Anyone (Russ?) can repeat here aprox. what the workaround for b was, for
> those like me that didn't attend usenix?
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is the porting process active?
>>>
>>
>> It seems to be an opportunistic concurrent activity (which is why I
>> tried to create a central repo so we'd get some benefit from the
>> sparse multiple activities). Most people were just waiting for Andrey
>> :)
>>
>> There is some stuff that Forysth/Jmk have been looking at to allow for
>> the segment registers, but Russ had suggested workaround at USENIX
>> that I don't think anyone has had time to try yet.
>>
>> So here's what my take on what needs to be done:
>>
>> a) Simple logistics (makefile/script transformations, Sape's branch
>> has some of this, what the right way to do this in order to be
>> integrated back into the mainline go tree is an open question)
>> b) support or workaround for the segment register stuff
>> c) runtime support
>>
>> People seem to be mostly getting hung up on (a), (b) is probably the
>> trickiest bit, and I think (c) is just a matter of sitting down and
>> getting it done.
>>
>> I wonder if one way of avoiding (a) is just to rig to cross-compile
>> from Linux/MacOSX to Plan 9 and get (b) and (c) done first then work
>> back to (a), just because it seems like it would be more satisfying.
>>
>> -eric
>>
>>
>
>
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-25 15:35 [9fans] comment and newline in define lucio
[not found] ` <AANLkTilhVWAu8htoIL903rtMK1z9Sw88pSfEASawc5Xi@mail.gmail.com>
2010-06-26 0:50 ` Christopher Nielsen
2010-06-26 0:58 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-26 4:18 ` Rob Pike
2010-06-26 6:15 ` Christopher Nielsen
2010-06-26 5:19 ` [9fans] Go/Inferno toolchain (Was: comment and newline in define) lucio
2010-06-26 6:46 ` Christopher Nielsen
2010-06-26 9:26 ` [9fans] Go/Inferno toolchain (Was: comment and newline in lucio
2010-06-26 10:34 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-26 11:00 ` lucio
2010-06-28 22:03 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-06-29 17:24 ` Rob Pike
2010-06-29 17:31 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-06-29 17:36 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-06-29 17:48 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-06-29 18:02 ` Jack Johnson
2010-06-29 18:10 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-06-29 18:12 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-06-29 20:30 ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2010-06-29 18:32 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-29 20:45 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-06-29 20:52 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-29 21:03 ` ron minnich
2010-06-29 21:36 ` Steve Simon
2010-06-29 21:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-06-30 9:25 ` Lucio De Re
2010-06-29 22:35 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-06-29 23:00 ` Russ Cox
2010-06-30 8:17 ` Lucio De Re
2010-06-29 21:15 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-06-29 21:27 ` ron minnich
2010-06-26 7:37 ` [9fans] Go/Inferno toolchain (Was: comment and newline in define) Ethan Grammatikidis
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