Re: [9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto

2011-08-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jens Staal wrote: > Personally, I believe that a Plan9 target for a cross compiler might > be more interesting. GCC already added support for the Plan9 dialect > of C. If it also could be made to compile Plan9 binaries, it could be > used for an alternative self-hosting distro as the one you en

Re: [9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto

2011-08-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Charles Forsyth wrote: > >waserror() depends on callee-save. > > caller-save, and a few other conventions (or rather, no need for more > conventions). > specifically, it's enough to save the pc and stack. all variables will > have the right values on non-zero return from setjmp, regardless of

Re: [9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto

2011-08-21 Thread erik quanstrom
> * Charles Forsyth wrote: > > >waserror() depends on callee-save. > > > > caller-save, and a few other conventions (or rather, no need for more > > conventions). > > specifically, it's enough to save the pc and stack. all variables will > > have the right values on non-zero return from setjmp,

Re: [9fans] files vs. directories

2011-08-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Lucio De Re wrote: Hi, > If the cloud were to be a mere repository of (encrypted) Venti blocks, > wouldn't it be a very useful tool? Actually, I already had been doing some works in that area. Not actually venti, but a some bit similar object store, which supports some kind of distribute gc,