From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 5 17:19:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 17:19:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CA137B401 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mira1.cisco.com (mira1.cisco.com [171.71.208.193]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA20008; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:19:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from cisco.com (ptlm1-dhcp-254.cisco.com [171.71.210.254]) by mira1.cisco.com (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AAR20339; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:19:08 -0800 (PST) Sender: gehicks@cisco.com Message-ID: <3A2D92AB.9892A82B@cisco.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:13:15 +0000 From: W Gerald Hicks Organization: Cisco Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Thomas David Rivers , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lint References: <20001205111025.I22946@moose.bri.hp.com> <200012051217.HAA56851@lakes.dignus.com> <20001206101008.C95349@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [to -chat] Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > As to original AT&T compilers; I recently discovered that Plan9 is > > now "open source" (I haven't looked at the license myself) so it may > > provide compile sources It does, looks very interesting too. License doesn't seem to be as restrictive as GPL (to me, IANAL, etc). > > I would expect it to be self-contained (ie include the compiler), but > I haven't checked. I do recall from an early talk on it by Rob Pike > that a fair amount of effort went into speeding up the C compiler > (though I don't know about the code quality). (I'm also a bit > uncertain of the degree of open-ness of the license). The compiler suite appears to be pretty close to C9X and with a fair investment of effort could be promising. It doesn't do Elf output, etc... I ported a simple plan9 archive extractor to FreeBSD some time ago to facilitate those wishing to tour the Plan9 sources. /usr/ports/archivers/9e Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@cisco.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message