On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com<bakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com> > wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:03:41 PDT David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Ori Bernstein <o...@eigenstate.org> > wrote: > > > > > LLVM is written in C++, so you'd need C++ support on plan 9 first. > Probably > > > the easiest way to do that would be to add support for plan 9 binaries > to > > > clang, and cross-compile llvm for plan 9 with itself. > > > > > > > > Yep. I was thinking a cross compile of clang to Plan 9 would be the > > starting point once LLVM is self-hosting (Is it?) > > You can do this: > > $ clang -c -emit-llvm foo.c -o foo.bc # llvm format output > $ llc -march=c foo.bc -o bar.c # C output > > No idea if the resulting .c file is compilable with plan9 C! > For a real port you'd need to add plan9 a.out format support > to llvm. Or add ELF support to plan9 :-) > > > Likewise. In the meantime it'd be nice to be able to build even just a > > cross compiler to target Plan 9 :-). > > I am interested. > > I hadn't thought about that... interesting.
