[Coco] OS-9 C and Pascal compiler output

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Feb 22 15:38:04 EST 2007


On Thursday 22 February 2007, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>On 22 Feb 2007 at 12:43, Ries, Rich [S&FS] wrote:
>> As I recollect, I found OS-9 C _impossible_ to figure out until I
>> learned C with Borland's Turbo C. Pascal was even worse! I _think_ I
>> used C to write a few filters, but most of my work was done in
>> BASIC-09 because it had a Debug environment built in.
>
>**************
>
>OS9 C compiler is a scaled down version of the K&R Version 1 C Compiler.
> If you learned C back in the early to mid 80's then it was not so
> difficult to pick up.
>
>I still like Fortran77. Learning Basic09 made learning Fortran 77 a
> breeze. They are quite similar to each other.
>
>james

Where ever you get the compiler, do yourself a favor and go find 
c_prep19.lzh (or whatever compression format I used) and replace the 
c.prep that comes with it, with the c.prep from that archive.  The 
original will trash your code when it gets over about 8 or 8k of source, 
and will do it silently.  But the code it generates will crash, 100%.  
This c.prep has been tested with src files slightly above 34k without 
problems.

I think its on rtsi.

There are some other usefull tools to go with it, some for all versions 
and some only for level2 & up. 

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