[Coco] SDCC and other C topics

[Boisy G. Pitre]

I received a reply from Erik Petrich who oversees the 68HC08 back-end 
for the SDCC compiler.  He said that if we could get the M09 port to a 
stable, code generating point, then he would be willing to incorporate 
it back into the SDCC compiler.

I've separated the m09 port into its own subdirectory and have done the 
work to 'hook' it to the SDCC compiler, but work needs to be done to 
adapt the back-end, which is still an hc08 inside, into one that 
understands and emits code for the 6809.

The SuperBoard is taking too much of my time to do any further work on 
this.  Would someone step up to the plate and take over this project?  
There are a lot of people on the list who want a cross-C compiler; this 
is a perfect opportunity.  Contact me and I will email you the tarball 
of my copy of the project's sandbox.  It connects to the sourceforge 
server anonymously, so everything is there to access CVS.

On another topic, someone mentioned using Soren Roug's os9l1 emulator 
to run the CoCo C compiler.  I think this is a great idea, and it 
"almost" works.  However, some of the system calls are unimplemented, 
and subsequent forks cause the memory that was allocated for the 
process to not be released, so the C compiler quickly runs out of 
memory.  It would be advantageous to fix this little problem and have 
the C compiler working under this emulator as a stop-gap measure before 
a fully implemented ANSI C cross compiler can be adapted.

The potential is there, but work needs to be done.  I'll champion 
anyone who gets off the sidelines and takes up the challenges presented 
to this community.  These tools can catapult us to a new level of 
productivity and software creation.

SDCC -- ???
os9l1 -- ???
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Boisy G. Pitre
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