On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 17:54 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:09 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> > 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. > >> > >> why would that be advantagous on plan 9? if you teach > >> gcc to output, e.g., 8.out, then what is gained by having > >> gnu binutils version of nm? > > > > Not *on* Plan9, but *for* Plan9: think cross-environment. > > let's just assume that everyone here knows where to find linux.
Well, that's what I meant: binutils on Linux (or any other UNIX for that matter) understood Plan9's *.out files you can set up a cross-environment *on Linux* and deploy on Plan9. I'm not sure its a killer application, but its a use case. Thanks, Roman.