[Coco] Re: cc6809 project

[Albert Stinger]

I think that this assembler and the ansi c compiler tools must
have started with the CUG tools adapted to run on msdos
systems. The CUG source being about the only way you could
really learn how to make an assembler or c language compiler.

It don't matter to me. I like using the K&R style just fine. It's where
it all started anyway. I remember when they said that K&R c language
would practically get rid of interfacing to other systems type problems.
All you needed was to use the stdlib and write your own input and
output type routines where the manual specified. What ever happened
to that statement. Now there is as much if not more interfacing
problems between systems and even programs on the same system.

Speaking of interfacing problems I thought that a tab or space character
was a field delimiter in assembly language?

<KnudsenMJ at aol.com> wrote in message 
news:8d.2384966b.2f72fed0 at aol.com...
> In a message dated 3/23/05 7:53:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> boisy at boisypitre.com writes:
>
>>Also, every label is followed by a ':'  and comments in the  comment
>>field of the instruction line start with ';'.  In fact,  all comments
>>now start with ';'
>
> This makes the code more readable (as well as easier to parse by the
> assembler), but will require lots of tedious hand editing to update older 
> code  -- 
> though the process could be automated, since the old assemblers seemed to 
> parse
> label, op, operand, and comments fields just fine without such 
> punctuation.
>
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