On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:55 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please will anybody who has a Plan 9 objective that can only be
> attained using GCC/G++ please drop me a line to let me know briefly
> what it is? If the whole exercise gets a lot of support, I'll happily
> set up more infrastructure to deal with it (wiki, blog, remote access,
> whatever Bell Labs would rather not do themselves).
>
It will no doubt be useful to us folks doing work for the gov't. They
DOE has lots of apps written for GCC or Fortran -- while there may be
other methods of accommodating these applications, having them "just
work" with GCC (particularly if the GCC fortran could be part of the
port) would help us a lot. It could also serve as a baseline for
performance/efficiency comparisons with other methodologies such as
linuxemu, etc.
Similarly, I've been working with other folks at potentially using
Plan 9 (for instance with the RAMP project) -- they'd be much happier
if they knew they could compile apps with GCC.
-eric
