[Coco] Kreider OS-9 C Library

Wed May 2 10:53:49 EDT 2018

On Wednesday 02 May 2018 09:10:31 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> Gene, I'm not sure if the library itself was ever updated. As soon as
> I'm able to go back into doing Coco stuff, I plan to release an
> updated version though. I've found things that were missing from the
> Kreider's last version (CLIB_91) and the "KLIB" which was his 1st
> release. KLIB was basically a copy of Microware's CLIB with a few
> additions and his CLIB_91 had many additions, but omitted several
> things. I have 2 or 3 different source sets and I want to compare them
> for the latest offerings. Compiling them is a pain in the butt as you
> HAVE to use the original CLIB along with the original c.pass1,
> c.pass2, c.opt, c.asm, c.opt, and c.link. You can't use any of the
> updated tools as it produces unusable libraries, especially RMA &
> RLINK. RMA in particular seems to add an extra 0 to the end of the
> object file. This doesn't affect normal programming, but wrecks havoc
> on libraries after linking as the offset to the next linked file is
> incorrect. This happens with all versions of RMA.
>
I must be and its been a few years, useing the originals, including 
cprep19, clib_t from the south american and various combo's of the asms, 
rma, and linkers. Not to mention Mikes ansifront and some of the other 
helpers. Never had such a problem. The only problem I ever had was that 
I was never able to work out clib_t's link order so I didn't need but 
one copy of a function in the libs. That would have been nicely fixed if 
we had a linker that started at the top of the lib files when resolving 
dependencies. Sadly we don't, it reads thru once, and if it gets to the 
end without resolving everything it was tuff luck. So I've wound up 
appending another copy of each function, one at a time, until the linker 
could find its butt with the one pass it used.

I can't even recall now, which assembler I was using back then, too much 
water and a pulmonary embolism 3 years back that damned near put a ~30~ 
on the end of my story has rinsed away some of the memories from 25+ 
years ago.

rxsz-3.3.6 is a big hunk of code. Paul Jerkatis and I got into some 
heated discussions on the list back when it was on princeton, about 
codeing equivalencies that were lots faster, and he finally bailed, 
which IMO was a good thing, we did not need his foot dragging in our 
coding tools. But he sent me the sources and I built it on the first try 
after he had published auto-crashers several times, using the 
replacement crep19 that he wouldn't touch because it wasn't a MicroWare 
pile of code.

He bought a Sun Workstation and left the coco environment the next day 
after I uploaded good rzsz code to rtsi. I've since managed to speed it 
up considerably and I think rtsi has 2 or 3 different copies, so find 
the latest and biggest dated version if you ever need it again. The 
latest/fastest will be larger because I incorporated the table lookup 
crc calculator.  Gained about 125 cps in overall speed on a stock coco3. 
My goal was to make it work at 9600, but the best I was able to get was 
equ to 7400 on a coco3 with a 63C09 in it. The only way to get there 
would have been a major rewrite, converting it to 256 byte buffer at a 
time from character at a time. But by then I was about burned out, and 
couldn't figure out how to do the last fragment, so what you have is it. 
Sorry doesn't cut it, but thats it.  We have much better and faster ways 
to move stuff today anyway.

> Bill Pierce
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Take care Bill. I gotta dress and take the missus to the sawbones.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, May 2, 2018 7:10 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Kreider OS-9 C Library
>
> On Wednesday 02 May 2018 02:22:36 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:>
> http:yaccs.info/BPIERCECOCO/Stuff/CLib_91_C_Library_Reference_(Carl_Kr
>>eider).pdfGot it. Do I need an updated copy of the Clib itself? Mine
> is pretty ancient.Thanks Bill.-- Cheers, Gene Heskett--"There are four
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