[Coco] Converting ANSI-C to K&R(Microware) - Ansifront didn't work

[gene heskett]

On Sunday, January 09, 2011 07:39:35 pm Michael Furman did opine:

> On Jan 8, 2011, at 10:19 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday, January 09, 2011 12:40:35 am Michael Furman did opine:
> >> I've noted that cc252 calls c.pass1 and c.pass2.  Is there any real
> >> difference between this and c.comp?  How do I switch them?
> > 
> > There is not a functional difference between them other than the
> > slightly smaller memory footprint for the two piece version, they
> > will both generate identical code whose crc's match. c.comp I assume,
> > will only run on a coco3, I never tried it on a coco2 but would
> > presume it would throw out of memory errors on a level 1 system.
> > 
> > As for switching them, you might have to rebuild cc252 after editing
> > the call to c.pass1 to use c.comp, and to comment out the verse that
> > calls c.pass2.  And of course adjust the temp filenames to fit.
> 
> First: Gene, Thanks so much for the detailed notes.
> 
> I peeked the source of c252.   These things can be changed in cc.h:
> 
> #define  TWOPASS     TRUE    /* undefine for one pass compiler */
> #define  ASSEMBLER   "rma"     /* change to "c.asm" if NOT Developer's
> Pak */ #define  NASSEMBLER  "r63"      /* alternate assembler for
> native .a source */ #define  LINKER      "rlink"   /* change to
> "c.link" if NOT Developer's pak */
> 
Sounds like a likely place to specify that stuff.  Unforch, after nearly 20 
years since I last 'adjusted' it, memories of how I did it get fuzzy with 
age.  Somewhat like me I guess. ;-)

> >> c.prep [ used by cc1 ]
> >> c_prep19 [ Can replace c.prep ?, cc252 expects this to be named
> >> c_prep ]
> > 
> > Rename c.prep to c.prep-old, then copy c_prep19 to /dd/cmds/c.prep,
> > should work.  If not, fix the internel name with ded too, and don't
> > forget to (v)erify the fixed name with ded.  However, I ran it for
> > yonks with the internal name of c_prep, see this:
> > ...
> > One could fix the _ to be a . with ded.  However it's a shrug as long
> > as the called name matches.
> 
> Looks like there's no need for any of this, and it looks like you
> changed this code around 1993:
> 
>      19 **  11-22-93  Added -E opt, triggers c_prep18's trigraph
> expands. G. Heskett
> 
>     369                if(tgfex)
>     370                         runit("c_prep -T ", 1);
>     371                else
>     372                         runit("c_prep", 1);
> 
> >> c.opt [ used by cc1, cc252 ]
> >> copt2 [ can replace c.opt ? ]
> > 
> > No, it should follow c.opt, they do slightly different functions.
> 
> This appears to be hard coded as well:
> 
>     524                          runit("c.opt", 0);

It shouldn't be too hard to add that stanza, complete with a controlling 
switch, either a cli option or a header edit & rebuild.
 
-- 
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