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Could this work bring closer the possibility of LLVM compiling itself into the Plan9 C dialect? http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2010-February/029659.h

• KenoFischer 10y ago
  From that email it sounds like there was more concern about the front-end side C/C++->LLVM-IR than the backend side, so this wouldn't affect that. As for the backend side of things, I know nothing about Plan 9, so I can't comment if their dialect would require modifications to this could base. However, I can't imagine that making the changes to support Plan 9 natively in LLVM would be significantly more onerous than changes required to this backend. In fact, a lot of the ABI work may have been done already since I believe Go shares the Plan 9 ABI.
• ksherlock 10y ago
  That seems like a lot of extra work. The end goal is to have clang on plan9? Create a plan9 target and then use clang to cross compile itself for plan9.