[Coco] OS9 C compiler

[James Jones]

No, it doesn't; unsigned char wasn't in K&R 1st edition, and the 6809
compiler only supports K&R 1st edition minus bit fields.

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:

> My next question is: does the OS9 compiler support unsigned char?  I keep
> getting errors related to this.
>
>
> Dave
>
>
> On 5/6/2017 4:45 AM, James Jones wrote:
>
>> cstart is the code that sets up things that C programs expect (zeroing or
>> initializing file scope and static variables, setting up stdio for
>> standard
>> in/out/error, converting what the target OS uses for command line
>> arguments
>> into argc/argv), calls main, and then does whatever teardown C programs
>> expect (e.g. closing standard input, output, error, for ANSI calling
>> functions registered with atexit()) and exits the process, passing the
>> exit
>> code returned from main() or passed to exit() back to the operating system
>> so the parent process can see how things turned out..
>>
>> The important part here is that it calls main(). That's the reference that
>> isn't resolved. Whoever wrote the code didn't include main(), which a
>> complete C program has to have. Maybe whoever wrote the code intended it
>> to
>> be used as a library?
>>
>> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>>
>> Any OS9 'C' gurus out there that could help me with a problem?
>>>
>>> I'm compiling some code written by someone else and my command line looks
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> cc1 csc.c -DOS9 -DX6809
>>>
>>> The compiler proceeds through both passes, the optimizer and the
>>> assembler
>>> but it chokes on the linker with this error:
>>>
>>> Unresolved references:
>>>   main                        cstart_a                 in
>>> /dd/lib/cstart.r
>>> linker fatal: unresolved references
>>>
>>>
>>> Any clues?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
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