[Coco] OS-9 C and Pascal compiler output

[Ries, Rich [S&FS]]

From: "James Diffendaffer" <jdiffendaffer at yahoo.com>

It's obvious these weren't that popular of an item given the number of
replies.

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As I recollect, I found OS-9 C _impossible_ to figure out until I
learned C with Borland's Turbo C. Pascal was even worse! I _think_ I
used C to write a few filters, but most of my work was done in BASIC-09
because it had a Debug environment built in.

The C compiler basically ran several programs sequentially: the
preprocessor, the compiler, the assembler, and maybe a linker. The
compiler would need to put out a format that the assembler would find
acceptable. Of course, if you are writing your own assembler, then you
determine what that format is. Personally, I'd just format it for the
RMA assembler; or to be really nice, have the RMA assembler the default,
with a command line switch to output in the Level-1 assembler's format.

Best wishes in your attempt,
--Rich