Re: [Sbcl-devel] Porting SBCL to Plan 9

[Stas B. <sta...@gm...>]

Plan 9 doesn't seem to be alive enough to bother.


On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 3:55 PM Michael McThrow <mmc...@gm...> wrote:
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> Hello.  I am curious about what it would take to port SBCL to Plan 9, which is something that I'm interested in.  Currently there is no Common Lisp compiler for Plan 9, and so I won't be able to compile SBCL directly in Plan 9, which means that I'll need to come up with another approach for porting SBCL.  The porting guide says, "If your needs are more exotic, see below or try asking on the mailing lists, since more options may be possible."
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> Plan 9 does have a POSIX compatibility layer, and so if SBCL is POSIX-conforming and doesn't rely on too many specific details of various *nix platforms, then I'm guessing that porting SBCL to Plan 9 would be roughly as difficult as porting SBCL to another *nix platform.  I would imagine, though, that if SBCL is to take advantage of Plan 9-specific features, though, then the port will require more work.
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> --Michael
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