[Coco] Microware C Compiler port

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Jan 19 20:39:09 EST 2009


On Monday 19 January 2009, John W. Linville wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:12:48PM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, John W. Linville wrote:
>>> I used cc/test/cc to build hello from hello.c without any errors.
>>> I then used 'os9 format' to build a disk image and 'os9 copy' to copy
>>> hello to it.  I then mounted the new disk image as disk #1 in MESS.
>>> 'dir /d1' in MESS shows the hello binary and AFAICT ident seems to
>>> think it is a valid binary.
>>>
>>> This is where the brain fart seems to have begun.  '/d1/hello' gives
>>> Error #215.  'chd /d1' followed by 'chx /d1' followed by 'hello'
>>> also gives Error #215.  What have I forgotten or done wrong?
>>>
>>> Hopefully I can be more helpful once I overcome this stumbling
>>> block. :-)
>>
>> You probably forgot to set the file attributes to executable?  Don't feel
>> bad, I did exactly the same thing :-(.
>
>Ah, that was it -- you and Robert were right.  At least I'm in good
>company. :-)
>
>So, did we ever track-down the source to ANSIFront? 

I think that is Eddie Kuhns who did that.  Worse comes to worse, dis the one 
we have.  ansifront-0.12 is the newest I'm aware of.

>Being able 
>to use ANSI sources would probably be helpful and more comfortable
>for many of us.  An alternative might be to add 'cproto -t' to the
>driver script.  Anyway, just a thought... :-)
>
>John



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