Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:13:15 +0000 From: W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lint Message-ID: <3A2D92AB.9892A82B@cisco.com> References: <20001205111025.I22946@moose.bri.hp.com> <200012051217.HAA56851@lakes.dignus.com> <20001206101008.C95349@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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[to -chat] Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > As to original AT&T compilers; I recently discovered that Plan9 is > > now "open source" (I haven't looked at the license myself) so it may > > provide compile sources It does, looks very interesting too. License doesn't seem to be as restrictive as GPL (to me, IANAL, etc). > > I would expect it to be self-contained (ie include the compiler), but > I haven't checked. I do recall from an early talk on it by Rob Pike > that a fair amount of effort went into speeding up the C compiler > (though I don't know about the code quality). (I'm also a bit > uncertain of the degree of open-ness of the license). The compiler suite appears to be pretty close to C9X and with a fair investment of effort could be promising. It doesn't do Elf output, etc... I ported a simple plan9 archive extractor to FreeBSD some time ago to facilitate those wishing to tour the Plan9 sources. /usr/ports/archivers/9e Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@cisco.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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