[Coco] 3rdPart Editor

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 16 December 2018 13:52:56 Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> On 12/16/18 1:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 December 2018 11:42:50 Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >> Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever built the version of the
> >>
> >> Unix editor "ed" that is in the 3rdparty/packages directory?
> >>
> >>
> >> Additionally, is there any documentation on the "make"
> >>
> >> command packaged with the C Compiler?  It does not seem to
> >>
> >> take any syntax used by other versions of make.
> >>
> >>
> >> bill
> >
> > That to me is an odd comment Bill, its the first make I ever used,
> > and it always did what I asked. But it doesn't have all the bells
> > and whistles the current *nix make has.
>
> Odd comment?  Why?  I tried it with the "ed" editor.  Does
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> a lot of weird stuff including inserting flags for the C Compiler
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> that are not anywhere in the makefile itself.  Doesn't seem to
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> recognize the section labels at all.  (Like all: clean:, etc. )
>
> Example:
>
>
> make all
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> make: Can't find source file to make "all.r"
>
>
> It's fun to play with it again (I have my system running with two
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> decent sized IDE disks!) but I am finding very little that works as
>
> expected.
>
>
> Got "ed" built, but not using either the scripts or the makefile
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> provided.  Working on SmallC.

Part of that may be smallC, it would/could be a lot different from either 
of the K&R reference books. The coco's C is pretty much the original K&R 
minus much of the bit twiddling, meaning you have to write your own. Not 
a big deal. The 6x09's not having a "barrel shifter" makes the hand 
tweaks much more attractive as the default is a one bit at a time loop, 
eg long shifts take a long time. There are ways to throw away the time 
for 8 bit and up shifts. Paul Jerkatis was run off this list 20 years 
ago because his idiot of a CS prof said it couldn't be done. I sent a 
short 6 or 7 line code snippet as proof. He was determined there was a 
side effect, but the only side effect was doing an 8 bit shift in less 
time than the compilers default method for a 1 bit shift.

That diff would be enough to chase me off of smallC regardless of the 
hardware you're useing, which I gather is not a real coco. What I'm 
writing here _always_ assumes its a real coco. I've never had the urge 
to try any of the emulators. My fault probably Bill, but there it is. :)

> Got it to compile (again, not 
>
> using the makefile, I compiled it by hand.) but while it worked
>
> fine on other systems it can't even read hello.c.  And all it
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> really does is read a source file and write out an assembler file.
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>
> But I will plug on.  Maybe I can find some utilities that can make
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> the job easier.
>
>
> bill

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