[Coco] setting up a C compiler system

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 21:29, Bob Devries wrote:
>please beware: the tandy supplied c.prep is hard coded to look at /d1
> for its DEFS directory. I just got caught with that :(

That patch is fairly well known, but it doesn't begin to address that 
utilities other tummy aches, warts, and ingrown toenails.

Source code sizes in excess of 12k or so will overflow its scoping 
mechanism, with no reported errors of any kind, but the object built 
with it will upchuck when run on the machine very quickly.  Os9 L2 is 
intrinsicly hard to crash when running on a coco3.  The microware 
version can and will generate code that will do it.  Reliably.

Cprep19 is the latest effort to overcome many of the microware releases 
problems, and can handle src code collections in excess of 36k without 
getting acid indigestion.  pf is that big, as is rzsz-3.36.

One of the criteria I used when doing the last 3 versions of it 
(previous releases were by the same gentleman that did the scsisys 
drivers) was that it had to be able to compile first rzsz-3.24 and 
finally rzsz-3.36 into stable code.  It can do that.  If you have been 
using that utility in any version from 3.16 on, I believe it came from 
my machine.  But you'll find 3.24 and 3.36 nearly 200cps faster than 
3.16, which didn't contain the table driven crc lookups I put in the 
later ones.

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