From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 08:48:22 +0100 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <20080504074224.C796685B2@okapi.maths.tcd.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9eae58ba-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 As I understand it the load of supporting two libraries was too much work, also the alef (and perhaps limbo) experience lead to libthread which provides much of the same functionality - abet not quite as neatly. the sources of the 2nd edition alef have been released and there was a one line change to make the code work on the 3rd (and I assume 4th) editions - the memory layout of processes has changed a little and the alef library needs to know (the stack address I think), for the fix see 9fans passim. -Steve