[9fans] Go/Inferno toolchain (Was: comment and newline in define)

[lucio@proxima.alt.za]

> The [568]c compilers in the Go tree are based on the Inferno/Plan 9
> compilers. Did something change?

Yes, they added ELF, didn't they?  And they used GCC to compile
everything, which is the bit I've been trying to consolidate since
more or less the very beginning.  The objective of the consolidation
is three-fold: (1) upgrade the Plan 9 toolchain to whatever fresh and
progressive features the Go toolchain provides, including targetting
ELF (and 6c, not to discounted); (2) port Go to Plan 9 and (3) add to
plan9port the ability the Go toolchain (as an alternative to GCC) for
program development.

There's a fourth objective, but it may be above my skill level, which
is to port all the other Plan 9 and/or Inferno architectures into the
consolidated toolchain.  Also, one needs to consolidate the linker and
libmach in some fashion and, lastly, somehow blend in binutils, GCC
and GDB into the project.  Although the decision by the GCC developers
to allow C++ code into the GCC codebase, as reported in slashdot, puts
a bit of a spanner in the works.

It seems a little bit more than the average summer of code endeavour,
but I'm not discouraging anyone who may want to tackle any of the
above.  It would be nice if I was made aware of others who may be
interested.  Right now, I'm catching up with work I did late December
last year, before it gets lost, buried or uselessly out of date.

++L