[Coco] MW 6809 Cross Compiler

[L. Curtis Boyle]

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