[Coco] Expert C programmer wanted

[James Dessart]

On 5-Feb-05, at 9:42 PM, Neil Morrison wrote:

>> Perhaps we could make the offer better -- we might find a list of
>> people willing to chip in to make a bounty for such a beast, with the
>> hope of it being portable so it could be targeted for Linux and Mac as
>> well as PC.
>
> Or SourceForge it.

Well, that's been done for gcc 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcc-coco), but I don't think gcc is 
the best candidate at the moment.

It should be fairly straightforward to start a branch of sdcc, probably 
within the sdcc project, or like 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdcc-m08/ for the 6808 series. Then 
people make donations to the project, but there's no way to specify a 
contract of any sort, or to have assurances that the work will be done.

Allen said:
> It would be nice to take existing 6809 C compilers and just modify 
> them.

Is there source for any of the CoCo-native C compilers? Because there's 
only one 6809 compiler for modern machines that's free and open source, 
and that's gcc.

James