[Coco] CoCo & CoCo OS-9 C compilers

[Ray Watts]

Allen Huffman wrote:

> Okay, the OS-9 C compiler released through Radio Shack was the two 
> pass, then Microware had a later version that was a one pass (never 
> released by Radio Shack).


****     Was it ever even released by Microware, Al?  All I ever saw 
were references to it by them and never heard about anyone owning one. 
 Methinks it was just an afterthought, after releasing the 68K compiler, 
that never came to fruition.

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>
> And yes, we really need an ANSI compiler for the CoCo.  Cross hosted 
> is fine, but it would be even better to have one that can run on a 
> CoCo (native) AND cross hosted PC/Mac.  Honestly, if we were to start 
> working on a cross hosted one, I'd like to see it written in Java 
> (command line Java is pretty fast) so it could run on PC, Mac, Linux, etc.
>
>
****    Actually, the suite of C-compiler software assembled by the CoCo 
crowd did a pretty good job with ANSI C ... at least at the level I 
compiled at.  Unless a new standard has been written, it *should* do for 
anything written for the CoCo.  The suite included  ANSIFRONT, a new 
C.PREP,  a new CC (actually there were 2 ... one was called CC2) and a 
new C.OPT .  There were also both some new libraries for GUI, etc., and 
the old standard and gfx ones were improved.  Gene Heskett is probably 
the only one still active on this board from that crowd.  He can 
probably give you a much more definitive answer than I did.  As far as 
cross hosting is concerned, arrggghhhnh!

Cheers,  Griz