> I think that you can produce a "C" hello world pretty easily if you > provide stubs for 8l (like morestack and etc.) and use GOOS=plan9 8l > -s to link you stuff together.
Thank you, it's my intention to get as many of these poorly connected pieces under my belt so I have a better view of the whole picture, so I'll definitely try out your suggestions and possibly build them into rc and/or sh scripts so they are not easily lost :-) My primary objective was and remains to jack up the Plan 9 "C" toolchain with newer features it failed to inherit from Inferno and now Go, with my own emphasis on ELF capabilities. There's one significant hurdle to be surmounted, more a design issue than a practical problem, namely that the Plan 9 multi-architecture ways deserve better multi-platform capabilities: the classic approach lacks equivalent convenience to be able to target Operating Systems other than Plan 9. That one can get the Go language and all its novelties and excitement thrown in can only be considered a gift from (Google-) heaven. In passing, there is no doubt that you have a much better understanding of the issues surrounding this subject than I have. I hope you don't mind me asking for direction when I get lost. I also hope that others on this mailing list have sufficient interest in the Go port to Plan 9 to bear with my occasional post. ++L
