On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:18:12PM +0300, Pavel Zholkover wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Lucio De Re <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote: > > PS: Would anybody like to summarise for us plebs whether there is any > > convergence looming between Go and Plan 9 on the x64 front? It seems > > sad to miss a chance to add a peer-reviewed and thoroughly tested 64-bit > > toolchain to Plan 9. > > the basic runtime support (not the current syscall and os changes) > involved changes to 8l and some C and 386 specific assembly in > pkg/runtime. I guess this could be re-done for 6l + x64 code in > runtime. The question is whether it is a useful application of > developers time at this stage (it would be still cross-compiled) and > the 386 runtime has not been properly tested. > I agree that focussing on x64 when there isn't a working target would be pointless, if intriguing. I guess the question then belongs in the Plan 9 camp: are we going to see an x64 Plan 9 development soon? and is the availability of the 6? chain in the Go sources helpful in arriving there?
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