[Coco] CoCo & CoCo OS-9 C compilers

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 07:24, alsplace at pobox.com wrote:
> Two questions/comments:
> 
> 1) What was the difference between the C compiler for CoCo OS-9 sold by 
> Radio Shack, and the later version?  One was a one pass compiler, the 
> other was a two-pass, but now I forget which was which.
> 
> 2) The RS-DOS C compiler -- I know it resurfaced for sale a few years 
> back after the end of Rainbow and such.  Who has control of it these 
> days, and did it have any potential in being used/udpated for OS-9?
> 
>      -- Allen
> 

IIRC, There was only one compiler and it was 2-pass.

I think the way I did fast compiles was to carve out a ramdisk for it.
Presumably you could pipe the output of each pass to the other... but
maybe it wants to deal only with files, in which case the ramdisk would
be the easiest solution.

Personally I don't think I could stand coding in K&R style any more. I
am too used to ANSI C.

-- John.