[Coco] Converting ANSI-C to K&R(Microware) - Ansifront didn't work

[gene heskett]

On Saturday, January 08, 2011 09:26:52 pm Willard Goosey did opine:

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 12:39:19PM -0800, Michael Furman wrote:
> >Is there another way to convert ANSI C to K&R C automatically?
> 
> If it's still on the Net, the BCC compiler used with ELKS had an
> converter.  I never used it, I don't know how well it works, or how
> happy the MW C compiler would be with its output.
> 
> Other than that, all I can say is "chop the source into smaller
> files"!
> 
> > The ansifront documentation mentions "Version 2.5 of CC" and I do
> > see this on RTSI.  I'd appreciate it if someone could give me some
> > pointers on how to cobble together the most recent C environment
> > that runs on Nitros9, which libraries and Cprep to get to go along
> > with this...
> 
> Well, you need the MW C Compiler and the LII development system.
> You can grab c.comp from Gene's web site but you didn't hear that from
> me! ;-)
> 
and TBT Willard, running that as two pieces (c.pass1, c.pass2) puts a lot 
less memory pressure on the coco, so while its nice, I'm not so sure its 
better.

> commands From RTSI:
> ansifront012.lzh*
> COpt2_1_1.lzh*  ansifront012.readme*  cc_2_5_2.lzh  rma_1_3_patch.lzh*
> Make_TK.lzh*    cb_C_Beautifier.lzh*  cprep19.lzh
> rma_6309_Patch.lzh*
> 
> defs from RTSI:
> C_Defs.lzh*  unixinclude.lzh
> 
> libraries from RTSI:
> CLib_Krieder_91.lzh*      Cgfx_7_src.lzh*               clibt.ar*
> CLib_Krieder_91_doc.lzh*  GUIlib_1_0.lzh*
> CStart_TK.lzh*            Solve.lzh*                    regexp.lzh
> Cgfx_7.lzh*               Termcap_Level2.lzh*           unixlib.lzh
> Cgfx_7_doc.lzh*           Window_SaveRestore_fncs.lzh*  varargs.lzh*
> 
> My modest contribution:
> http://www.sdc/org/~goosey/os9/curses09.lzh
> 
> That should bring you up to the Ultimate OS-9 C compiler.
> 
> Willard


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