[Coco] MW 6809 Cross Compiler

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Tue Jul 12 09:38:14 EDT 2005


On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:45:27 -0600, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com>
wrote:
Is this the level 1 or level 2 C compiler?


> Through someone's good graces, I received a copy of the source code to

> Microware's 6809 C compiler last month. Written in C itself, the

> compiler components have all been compiled successfully and run under

> Linux and MacOS. This means that finally, we can use these tools on

> very fast computers to compile legacy and new C source code for OS-9/

> NitrOS-9 at blazing speeds. It also means that the compiler can finally

> be improved to provide ANSI C compatibility.

>

> I'm bound by certain restrictions on how I can share binaries, so I

> haven't worked out all of the details on how the compiler might be made

> available to people who want to use it.

>

> The source base did not include the rma assembler or the rlink linker.

> It happens that I have source code to an rma work-alike that David

> Breeding made some years ago. This works fine; however there is still

> no linker in place that works with the .r ROF format emitted by the

> compiler. If someone happens to have written such a ROF compatible

> linker that works like rlink, please contact me. This would complete

> the tool-chain and give us a complete C cross-compiler solution that we

> have been needing.

>

> Boisy

>




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L. Curtis Boyle



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