From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: bwc@coraid.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fast compilers In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-afhwfyenmyodreerftzkbspnfn" Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:28:17 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8c221f4a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-afhwfyenmyodreerftzkbspnfn Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I find the external assembler and linker to be simpler than the plan 9 *[cal] suite. It seems more modular, easier to understand all the components. I also find it easy to port an assembler to a new machine than it is to mess with the internal compiler stuff in the plan 9 C set of programs. Was Ken's compiler an expirment in a new way of doing things? If so what was the verdict? I enjoy using the compiler, but is it the best way to do compilers? Brantley --upas-afhwfyenmyodreerftzkbspnfn Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by edsac; Tue Apr 8 02:27:35 EDT 2003 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.18.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id DA3F519B10; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 02:24:07 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from lavoro.home.cs.york.ac.uk (public1-york1-5-cust44.leed.broadband.ntl.com [80.0.45.44]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 14F6019B09 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 02:23:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fast compilers From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <20030408061115.28990.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-lwcxvclmnhuaudaljrffonivcb" Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:12:30 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-lwcxvclmnhuaudaljrffonivcb Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit it's a good piece of work, and at one time it even had a go at implementing some of the Plan 9 extensions, but it still requires an external assembler and linker in the old style (in all the incarnations i've seen). --upas-lwcxvclmnhuaudaljrffonivcb Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1049782409:20:19242:31; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:13:29 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2119775; 8 Apr 2003 6:12 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.18.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 2B59419B18; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 02:12:08 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from galapagos.cse.psu.edu (galapagos.cse.psu.edu [130.203.12.17]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 1F10219B18 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 02:11:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 28991 invoked by uid 991); 8 Apr 2003 06:11:15 -0000 Message-ID: <20030408061115.28990.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fast compilers In-Reply-To: Message from Dan Cross of "Tue, 08 Apr 2003 02:05:13 EDT." <200304080605.h3865DL17673@augusta.math.psu.edu> From: Scott Schwartz Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 02:11:15 -0400 Dan asks: | I should note, however, that building compilers akin to Plan 9's C | compiler shouldn't really be too hard; why hasn't anyone done it yet? Does lcc qualify? http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/ --upas-lwcxvclmnhuaudaljrffonivcb-- --upas-afhwfyenmyodreerftzkbspnfn--