[Coco] CMOC C-like cross-compiler now supports const

[James Jones]

Can pointer types be const qualified? That causes major difficulties in
OS-9, because position-independent code and data that lives in some place
determined at run time and pointed at by a register makes it impossible to
correctly do const-qualified pointers.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sarrazip.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have just published version 0.1.50 of CMOC, my C-like cross-compiler
> for the CoCo's Disk Basic environment.
>
> Since the last version I mentioned on this list (0.1.43), the following
> changes have happened:
>
> - The `const' keyword is now supported. Warnings are issued for
>   statements that are not const-correct. The warnings can be silenced
>   by giving the command-line option "-Wno-const".
>
>   Global arrays of const integers are automatically put in the read-only
>   data section, which should make the #pragma const_data directive
>   obsolete.
>
>   The picojpeg.c file at <https://github.com/richgel999/picojpeg>
>   can now be compiled without modification by CMOC. It might be
>   possible to write a JPEG viewer by using CMOC's <disk.h> functions
>   to load an image file.
>
> - Function pointers are now type-safe (since 0.1.46).  Arrays of
>   function pointers are now supported. Returning a long, float,
>   double or struct through a function pointer call is now supported.
>
> - OS-9 support has been improved.
>
> - New options --deps and --deps-only create a makefile dependency file
>   for the C file being compiled.
>
> - Several minor bug fixes and optimizations.
>
> As with other recent CMOC features, users should expect bugs and
> missing corner cases. Bug reports are welcome.
>
> Details can be obtained at the CMOC Home Page and in the manual:
>
>     http://sarrazip.com/dev/cmoc.html
>
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> Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip @ sarrazip . com>
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