[Coco] Microware C Compiler port

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, John W. Linville wrote:

>> I sent the compiler sources and binaries to about six people that
>> contacted me directly, but have heard nothing, nada, zilch, zip..
>>
>> Has anyone tried using it for anything?  Any comments or observations?
>
> So I went looking for some old K&R sources that I could play with and
> reasonably expect to test on a (emulated) coco.  I decided to try some
> utilities from an old version of Minix (1.1).  The 'wc' utility seemed
> like a reasonable candidate.  I'll attach the slightly modified sources
> I got to work along with the diff from the original Minix sources.
>
> Some of the changes are simple, such as changing "%6D" to "%6d",
> implementing a utility function ("sig_err"), and fixing an actual
> syntax error.  That was enough to get the program basically running,
> but it was producing 0 counts for lines, words, and characters.
>
> The original sources had those count vars defined as long.  Changing
> them to int yielded correct results, except that it doesn't take much
> to overflow the character count... :-(
>
> Did this compiler have problems with long in the original OS-9/6809
> version?  It is bad enough to not handle long, but to compile it
> without complaint and simply not work seems rather  wrong.  FWIW,
> changing to 'long int' didn't change anything.
>
> Still, it _is_ cool to compile for OS-9 on my Linux box... :-)

Thanks, John.  The feedback is appreciated.  I'm going to gather input and 
hopefully work on a more refined release for the near future.

Steve


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