From: Greg Comeau <comeau@panix.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question...
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:54:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fod90j$7nm$1@panix3.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50802061111y1da6442dn3e42ca30288b704e@mail.gmail.com>
In article <7871fcf50802061111y1da6442dn3e42ca30288b704e@mail.gmail.com>,
Joel C. Salomon <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>On Feb 6, 2008 4:53 AM, Greg Comeau <comeau@panix.com> wrote:
>> And my question remains about gcc, either there is or there
>> isn't a port for Plan 9, but it seems clear to me that there
>> is one, so why do people keep saying not?
>
>There is a port of GCC, but it's not maintained much and reports vary
>on how stable it is.
Ok, thanks. That's a very different statement than what seemed
to be being said, at least recently said.
>Also, 9c-produced 'object files' (basically
>compressed assembler code) are incompatible with GCC's object files,
>so any libraries that must be shared need to be recompiled.
That's not so rare as to be a Plan 9 specific problem,
although I agree, it has issues. Anyway, thanks again for
the clarifications.
>A '9c++' (actually 2c++, 8c++, kc++, &c.) that compiled through C,
>using the Plan 9 C compilers, should have no problems -- so long as
>the front-end doesn't rely on GCCisms or the nuttier (in the Plan 9
>viewpoint) misfeatures of C99 like dynamically-sized arrays.
That c/w/ould make sense if it does/can not support those.
(We can handle both, at least on some other OSes, so this
could be interesting.)
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2008-02-01 0:22 Michael Andronov
2008-02-01 0:25 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-01 0:31 ` john
2008-02-01 0:30 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 0:59 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-01 2:16 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-01 8:50 ` John Stalker
2008-02-01 17:15 ` Michael Andronov
2008-02-02 4:43 ` Michael Andronov
2008-02-02 4:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 13:02 ` Steve Simon
2008-02-04 10:21 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 10:52 ` mattmobile
2008-02-04 11:12 ` Uriel
2008-02-04 11:47 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 15:42 ` Alf
2008-02-04 16:06 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 16:53 ` Steve Simon
2008-02-04 19:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-06 19:11 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-02-07 1:32 ` Uriel
2008-02-07 1:44 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-07 9:54 ` Greg Comeau [this message]
2008-02-06 9:45 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 11:09 ` Uriel
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 14:32 ` [9fans] cross-compilation Charles Forsyth
2008-02-02 4:57 ` [9fans] A newbie question Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 7:12 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 14:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 15:30 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 15:33 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 15:48 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 16:04 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 16:34 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 16:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-02 17:41 ` Uriel
2008-02-02 18:27 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-02 19:22 ` Juan M. Mendez
2008-02-02 19:42 ` Anthony Sorace
2008-02-02 20:10 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-04 1:49 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-02 22:25 ` ron minnich
2008-02-03 0:17 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-02-03 0:30 ` Rob Pike
2008-02-03 7:51 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-03 8:44 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 9:30 ` lucio
2008-02-03 11:39 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 12:49 ` lucio
2008-02-03 13:25 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 14:10 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 2:05 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-08 16:40 ` plan9
2008-02-03 14:07 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-03 0:33 ` Uriel
2008-02-03 1:42 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-03 1:55 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-03 14:47 ` Paweł Lasek
2008-02-04 2:03 ` Enrico Weigelt
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2008-02-03 16:12 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-04 2:57 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 8:00 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 7:31 ` john
2008-02-03 15:01 ` dave.l
2008-02-03 15:10 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 21:16 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 22:01 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-04 1:02 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 1:11 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 1:19 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 1:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-05 2:23 ` David Arnold
2008-02-05 2:26 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-05 2:38 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-05 2:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-05 3:00 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-05 3:35 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-02-05 2:31 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-02 4:57 kokamoto
2008-02-04 12:12 gdiaz
2008-02-04 12:47 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 13:01 ` Uriel
2008-02-04 13:41 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-04 13:59 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-04 14:36 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-04 14:43 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-06 10:02 ` erik quanstrom
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