Re: [9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto

2011-08-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jens Staal staal1...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I believe that a Plan9 target for a cross compiler might be more interesting. GCC already added support for the Plan9 dialect of C. If it also could be made to compile Plan9 binaries, it could be used for an alternative self-hosting distro

Re: [9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto

2011-08-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Charles Forsyth fors...@terzarima.net wrote: waserror() depends on callee-save. caller-save, and a few other conventions (or rather, no need for more conventions). specifically, it's enough to save the pc and stack. all variables will have the right values on non-zero return from setjmp,

Re: [9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto

2011-08-21 Thread erik quanstrom
* Charles Forsyth fors...@terzarima.net wrote: waserror() depends on callee-save. caller-save, and a few other conventions (or rather, no need for more conventions). specifically, it's enough to save the pc and stack. all variables will have the right values on non-zero return from

Re: [9fans] files vs. directories

2011-08-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Lucio De Re lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Hi, If the cloud were to be a mere repository of (encrypted) Venti blocks, wouldn't it be a very useful tool? Actually, I already had been doing some works in that area. Not actually venti, but a some bit similar object store, which supports some kind