[Coco] Converting ANSI-C to K&R(Microware) - Ansifront didn't work

[Willard Goosey]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 04:02:37PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:

> > I did a few tests of copt2.

> And you have probably done more with it than I can remember doing right 
> now.  

Optimization is deep magic indeed.  That's grad student stuff and I
didn't get that far.  Writing the compiler, yes.  Optimizing its
output, no.

I would like to develop a pattern for copt2 to clean up after
ansifront's "unsigned char" hack (which is to "(X & 255)" all
operations with the "unsigned char".  I imagine this leads to lots of
"sex \n andd #$FF" in the assembly which could just be replaced with
"clra" or something.  But that would require staring at lots of
compiler output.

Willard
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