From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on the Cell... From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 10:26:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 581663b4-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i suspect it can probably be done as an option to the existing compiler and linker. amd64 needed a new one because the floating-point is completely different, with proper registers this time, and code generation strategy is also a little different for integers. by contrast, ppc64 is just the same as the 32-bit mode, with some extra instructions and somewhat different code required to load values.