[9front] Zig on Plan 9

[9front] Zig on Plan 9

[Stephen Gregoratto]

It appears that the first inklings of Plan 9 support for Zig have
arrived[1]. At this stage it's mostly a proof of concept for their
home-grown linker than anything else, but it's neat that it exists.
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Stephen Gregoratto

Re: [9front] Zig on Plan 9

[Nick Owens]

was there supposed to be a hyperlink with that [1]?

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 3:12 AM Stephen Gregoratto <dev@sgregoratto.me> wrote:
>
> It appears that the first inklings of Plan 9 support for Zig have
> arrived[1]. At this stage it's mostly a proof of concept for their
> home-grown linker than anything else, but it's neat that it exists.
> --
> Stephen Gregoratto

Re: [9front] Zig on Plan 9

[Stephen Gregoratto]

On 2021-07-11 05:02, Nick Owens wrote:
> was there supposed to be a hyperlink with that [1]?

Yes: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/9105

-- 
Stephen Gregoratto

Re: [9front] Zig on Plan 9

[jacoblevgw]

Quoth Stephen Gregoratto <dev@sgregoratto.me>:
> It appears that the first inklings of Plan 9 support for Zig have
> arrived[1]. At this stage it's mostly a proof of concept for their
> home-grown linker than anything else, but it's neat that it exists.
> -- 
> Stephen Gregoratto
Hi, I am the author of this linker. Thanks for noticing it! It uses the self-hosted x64 (and now aarch64) backend, so it should support anything that those backends support. I had to add some more inline assembly support, but now it supports syscalls and can do hello world. :) See https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/ziglang/zig/pull/9337.patch
I think the hardest part will be the brute work of integrating plan9 into the standard library. Once the self-hosted compiler gets a little better, I will start doing this.
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Jacob G-W