> Any reason why they prefer to rewrite large portions of > code to use gcc rather than making use of different toolchains > for the L4 kernel and the plan9 subsystems? It seems like the > latter would be a lot less effort and result in a system that was > easier to track the original sources going forward.
Seems like portability isn't of interest to anyone, anymore. As Russ suggested to me a while back, the Plan 9 kernel should not require massive rewriting to port to GCC. Go figure. ++L
