From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5905828a43a7658265a86f484a46aba6@proxima.alt.za> References: <5905828a43a7658265a86f484a46aba6@proxima.alt.za> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:32:26 +1100 Message-ID: From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bdc05382db3df04ee8bab17 Subject: Re: [9fans] MIPS LE fp register ordering in MOVD Topicbox-Message-UUID: a94da438-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7bdc05382db3df04ee8bab17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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, 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 > > > > --047d7bdc05382db3df04ee8bab17 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I don't recall 0c ever being a script. That was done t= his century. Looks like things got broke.

brucee


On 27 Dec= ember 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: 0= c
became a script to invoke vc, or somesuch. =C2=A0Could you shed some light<= br> on this? =C2=A0Or was forsyth involved? =C2=A0Bell Labs are consistently sh= ort
on rationales.

++L




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