Re: [9fans] Plan9 on the Cell...

[Charles Forsyth]

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.