From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 12:55:27 +0800 From: "Rogelio Serrano" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5b0bd4c6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/6/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat May 5 21:13:56 EDT 2007, rogelio.serrano@gmail.com wrote: > > compiling c code. can you imagine a c compiler that does not translate > > to asm first? > > like ken's c compiler? > > - erik > really? i though it had an "internal" assembler. i certainly would create an assembler first. even for testing purposes only. i remember debugging a pl/0 compiler in compiler class and it is really mind numbingly hard to work with pentium machine code directly. can we write plan 9 without using assembler? maybe for some archs. but not x86. of course if i am creating my own processor i would make sure i dont need to use assembly at all. but then other programmers would want their favorite language to be supported as well and they will likely end up creating their own processor. not a good situation. -- the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items