[Coco] "C" Compiler C_PREP19 errors or mine?

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

Please read this E-mail using a monospaced font!

In trying to build a new copy of my program I discovered two things that 
puzzle me both related to C_PREP19.

I am using CPREP19.lzh from Gene as well as CC252.lzh.

http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/Genes-os9-stf/

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The first item are the Syntax errors reported for the

"fputs("\x1BM\x1Bl\d010\x1BQ\d090",fcb);" lines.

This sends control codes to an Epson printer.

Twenty years ago this was accepted just fine.

I checked the CoCo OS-9 "C" Compiler manual and they are correct.

They are NOT correct for ANSI "C" AFAIK.

C_PREP is an ANSI standard C preprocessor.  It can completely replace
Microware's c.prep.  It contains all of the features of c.prep plus some
extras.  It follows the grammar set out in the ANSI C standard by the X3J11
committee.

The unofficial ANSI "C" document I looked at did not give an option for 
decimal and in any case the CoCo OS-9 "C" Compiler requires the format I 
used. (I converted to HEX.)

I think that this checking is NOT proper to be done in C_PREP without 
running CC with the

    "-A        Run ansifront for ANSI-C processing." option selected.

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The second item is the suggested use of __DATE__, __TIME__ and __FILE__ 
taken right from the "cprep19.doc" file.

To me these need to substituted into strings, but they are not.

"__DATE__, __TIME__ and __FILE__ " would be useful.

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/*----------- testcp19 -------------------*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>


/* Globals  */
FILE *fcb;
char ch3;
int num;

main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{

  fcb=fopen("/P","w");

  fcb->_flag |= _RBF;   /* stop output editing */

  /* Switch to stdout from /P */
  fcb = stdout;


  fputs("\x1BM\x1Bl\d010\x1BQ\d090",fcb);

  fputs("\x1BP\x1Bl\d004\x1BQ\d084",fcb);

   fprintf(stderr,"Current file name is: %s\n",__FILE__);
   fprintf(stderr,"Compile date is: %s\n",__DATE__);
   fprintf(stderr,"Compile time: %s\n",__TIME__);
}

/*----------- testcp19 -------------------*/

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*** "testcp19.c" <Line #23>   Syntax error - Illegal escape sequence ***
 fputs("\x1BM\x1Bl\d010\x1BQ\d090",fcb);
                   ^

*** "testcp19.c" <Line #23>   Syntax error - Illegal escape sequence ***
 fputs("\x1BM\x1Bl\d010\x1BQ\d090",fcb);
                             ^

*** "testcp19.c" <Line #23>   Syntax error - Illegal escape sequence ***
 fputs ( x1BM\x1Bl\d010\x1BQ\d090",fcb);
                   ^

*** "testcp19.c" <Line #23>   Syntax error - Illegal escape sequence ***
 fputs ( x1BM\x1Bl\d010\x1BQ\d090",fcb);
                             ^

*** "testcp19.c" <Line #25>   Syntax error - Illegal escape sequence ***
 fputs("\x1BP\x1Bl\d004\x1BQ\d084",fcb);
                   ^

*** "testcp19.c" <Line #25>   Syntax error - Illegal escape sequence ***
 fputs("\x1BP\x1Bl\d004\x1BQ\d084",fcb);
                             ^

*** "testcp19.c" <Line #25>   Syntax error - Illegal escape sequence ***
 fputs ( x1BP\x1Bl\d004\x1BQ\d084",fcb);
                   ^

*** "testcp19.c" <Line #25>   Syntax error - Illegal escape sequence ***
 fputs ( x1BP\x1Bl\d004\x1BQ\d084",fcb);
                             ^
testcp19.c : line 28  ****  undeclared variable  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Current file name is: %s\n" , testcp19.c ) ;
                                                                     ^
testcp19.c : line 28  ****  struct member required  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Current file name is: %s\n" , testcp19.c ) ;
                                                                     ^
testcp19.c : line 28  ****  undeclared variable  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Current file name is: %s\n" , testcp19.c ) ;
                                                            ^
testcp19.c : line 29  ****  ) expected  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile date is: %s\n" , May 21 1911 ) ;
                                                           ^
testcp19.c : line 29  ****  undeclared variable  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile date is: %s\n" , May 21 1911 ) ;
                                                       ^
testcp19.c : line 29  ****  ; expected  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile date is: %s\n" , May 21 1911 ) ;
                                                           ^
testcp19.c : line 29  ****  ; expected  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile date is: %s\n" , May 21 1911 ) ;
                                                              ^
testcp19.c : line 29  ****  ; expected  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile date is: %s\n" , May 21 1911 ) ;
                                                                   ^
testcp19.c : line 29  ****  syntax error  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile date is: %s\n" , May 21 1911 ) ;
                                                                   ^
testcp19.c : line 30  ****  ) expected  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile time: %s\n" , 07:04:30 ) ;
                                                      ^
testcp19.c : line 30  ****  ; expected  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile time: %s\n" , 07:04:30 ) ;
                                                      ^
testcp19.c : line 30  ****  syntax error  ****
fprintf ( ( & _iob [ 2 ] ) , "Compile time: %s\n" , 07:04:30 ) ;
                                                      ^
errors in compilation : 12

 cc version 2.5.2
'testcp19.c'
   c_prep :   testcp19.c
   c.pass1:   /DD/TMP/ctmp.4.m -o=/DD/TMP/ctmp.4.a

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TIA

SHF