[Coco] More progress

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 29 December 2008, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> I have it working now.  At least, it's generating what appears to be a
>> proper binary.  I'm calling it a day and will try running it on the CoCo
>> tomorrow.
>
>Quick followup:  It works!
>
>So, to the extent that a trivial program runs, we have an OS-9
>cross-compiler that hosts on a Linux box :-).
>
>I will pull together my notes and patches and make a comprehensive posting
>in case anyone else wants to join the party.
>
>Steve

Great news Steven.  But I do have a question in re the c.prep you used as a 
model. The MicroWare version has some loose ends that Matthew tried to clean 
up when he was in college by writing a new one, and I grabbed that when the 
prof gave him an A for it, and fixed up it enough that it could build a 
working rzsz-3.24 and on thru 3.36, the last version I uploaded.

The original c.prep will not output code that can be built, or will crash if 
it does, if the total size of the src files exceeds about 11k.  My last pass 
at a c.prep, called cprep19, handled the nominally 36k rzsz srcs just fine.  
The original c.prep ran out of buffer space silently and forgot variable 
names when it ran out, which appeared to be happening if its output was 
inspected. 

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