> one nice thing about the scheme is that in the compiler suite > only the loader knows or needs to know > the bit patterns and peculiar properties of the actual machine.
Thank you for reminding me, I thought I'd seen the details somewhere. Now to actually absorb them, given that if I were to read your comments literally, I'd assume that the intermediate code would be machine independent. Seeing that such is not the case, I'd better look a little deeper. It would be a shame (but no disaster) if Binutil's "nm" and other tools could not at least display native Plan 9 intermediate files. I need to know or decide how far to take this exercise. ++L
