> 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.
It's also a necessity in order to bootstrap the GCC compiler, although you need it only once. The other option is to go back into pre-history and compile a very old version of GCC under KenCC, but then the number of iterations may be much greater. You don't need the Binutils for anything other than executables, but I was hoping to get them for free or at least at a very low price, it seems that is not the case. ++L PS: I may still go as far back as that, because GCC 2.95 (my memory may be faulty there) was a benchmark compiler (just before the EGCS fad) and may be worth keeping around as a reference.
