Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 01:40:15 -0400 From: Jerry Hicks <gehicks@alltel.net> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <51BB3055-AF74-11D7-9616-0030657B5F1E@alltel.net> In-Reply-To: <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk>
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On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 07:51 AM, Paul Robinson wrote: > The big one is gcc. Remove that, and we're really rolling. The > alternatives > aren't very good though - TenDRA? I remember the troll a few weeks ago > suggesting this, and maybe it's a plan. The impact would be massive > though. Plan 9's compilers are the closest thing I've seen toward a compiler that could be used to bootstrap a BSD. I believe one would pay a hefty price in terms of optimization however. I actually got the assembler, compiler and linker working on Freebsd a while back. The Plan 9 compiler suite generates COFF output though and I needed to get a crt0 set up for it (which I never did). FreeBSD's IBCS image activator was able to load the images without a hitch. > All those makefiles with command line options to be passed to gcc... Bah, child's play :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@alltel.net
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