In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joel C. Salomon <[email protected]> wrote: >On Feb 6, 2008 4:53 AM, Greg Comeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.) -- Greg Comeau / 4.3.9 with C++0xisms now in beta! Comeau C/C++ ONLINE ==> http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout World Class Compilers: Breathtaking C++, Amazing C99, Fabulous C90. Comeau C/C++ with Dinkumware's Libraries... Have you tried it?
