[Coco] setting up a C compiler system

[John Donaldson]

OK, I have printed out all the great email I have gotten on this 
subject. One more
question. Where can I find RMA and RLINK. Are they on RSTI ??

John Donaldson




Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Thursday 29 December 2005 21:29, Bob Devries wrote:
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>>please beware: the tandy supplied c.prep is hard coded to look at /d1
>>for its DEFS directory. I just got caught with that :(
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>That patch is fairly well known, but it doesn't begin to address that 
>utilities other tummy aches, warts, and ingrown toenails.
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>Source code sizes in excess of 12k or so will overflow its scoping 
>mechanism, with no reported errors of any kind, but the object built 
>with it will upchuck when run on the machine very quickly.  Os9 L2 is 
>intrinsicly hard to crash when running on a coco3.  The microware 
>version can and will generate code that will do it.  Reliably.
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>Cprep19 is the latest effort to overcome many of the microware releases 
>problems, and can handle src code collections in excess of 36k without 
>getting acid indigestion.  pf is that big, as is rzsz-3.36.
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>One of the criteria I used when doing the last 3 versions of it 
>(previous releases were by the same gentleman that did the scsisys 
>drivers) was that it had to be able to compile first rzsz-3.24 and 
>finally rzsz-3.36 into stable code.  It can do that.  If you have been 
>using that utility in any version from 3.16 on, I believe it came from 
>my machine.  But you'll find 3.24 and 3.36 nearly 200cps faster than 
>3.16, which didn't contain the table driven crc lookups I put in the 
>later ones.
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