[Coco] Question re: C Compiler sources

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Boisy Pitre wrote:

> Steve,
>
> By the looks of it, L01a6 ends is bogus.  Ends simply marks the end of a 
> segment, and I would eliminate the label on that line.
>
> Sounds like you're making progress.

Ok, I'm past that and have built the preprocessor, compiler and optimizer.

I created a "/dd" directory off the root of my system and placed the 
headers from a real compiler distribution in /dd/defs and the clib in 
/dd/lib.

Next, I created a simple "Hello, World" one-liner and tried to figure out 
how to compile it.

This seems to attempt preprocessing:

./coprep hello.c > hello1.c

But the preprocesor is making a hash of the output.  Looks like buffered 
and unbuffered I/O are getting used interchangeably without proper 
flushing.  More later...

Just curious, though.  Is this actually supposed to work?  There is some 
commentary from the person who packaged it that would suggest it does, but 
I cannot believe this particular tarball represents a working compiler. 
I've hit too many fundamental issues to accept that.

Steve


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