From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 00:02:15 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 69fdb80e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:55 PM, wrote: > > Please will anybody who has a Plan 9 objective that can only be > attained using GCC/G++ please drop me a line to let me know briefly > what it is? If the whole exercise gets a lot of support, I'll happily > set up more infrastructure to deal with it (wiki, blog, remote access, > whatever Bell Labs would rather not do themselves). > It will no doubt be useful to us folks doing work for the gov't. They DOE has lots of apps written for GCC or Fortran -- while there may be other methods of accommodating these applications, having them "just work" with GCC (particularly if the GCC fortran could be part of the port) would help us a lot. It could also serve as a baseline for performance/efficiency comparisons with other methodologies such as linuxemu, etc. Similarly, I've been working with other folks at potentially using Plan 9 (for instance with the RAMP project) -- they'd be much happier if they knew they could compile apps with GCC. -eric