From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MIPS LE fp register ordering in MOVD
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:32:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQxxwmiQx6B3u5PfSsOrOGtRsnXzdF3hst+U8E2Ou9dCDxyyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5905828a43a7658265a86f484a46aba6@proxima.alt.za>
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I don't recall 0c ever being a script. That was done this century. Looks
like things got broke.
brucee
On 27 December 2013 15:41, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > You might be able to blame the play station 2 and the two different MIPS
> > chips it had. I did two compilers. The FP was very unusual and one was LE
> > and the other BE. Inferno port worked well.
>
> Eventually, it seems that the second compiler was somehow absorbed: 0c
> became a script to invoke vc, or somesuch. Could you shed some light
> on this? Or was forsyth involved? Bell Labs are consistently short
> on rationales.
>
> ++L
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-27 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-24 17:20 cherry
2013-12-26 23:46 ` cherry
2013-12-26 23:48 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-27 0:25 ` cherry
2013-12-27 1:40 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-27 3:40 ` cherry
2013-12-30 7:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2013-12-27 3:41 ` cherry
2013-12-27 4:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-27 4:41 ` lucio
2013-12-27 22:32 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2013-12-28 1:22 ` cherry
2013-12-28 1:47 ` Bruce Ellis
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