[Coco] OS-9 / NitOS-9 C programmers, lend me your makefiles

[Jeff Teunissen]

That's good to know. If I remember correctly, oncatenation is
equivalent to CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) [stuff you added] in GNU Make, to
avoid infinite recursion. (note the : -- that is supposed to mean it's
evaluated once, where it appears)

Make variable mechanics can occasionally get complicated. :)

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 3:43 PM William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>
> I moved onto the next phase of my testing the concatenation/appending of
> macro values and discovered a bug.  I started adding to the CFLAGS macro in
> the make.default file and caused some crashes.  Turns out I wasn't
> allocating space to the oldmaval (old macro value) variable and was causing
> a buffer overrun and subsequent crash.  I also need to go back and find out
> why concatenation from the command line also crashes.
>
> WIlliam Carlin
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 4:59 PM Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net> wrote:
>
> > Right, but I can't really do the same thing -- simply copying .r files
> > from the old lib doesn't help the rebuildability, which is one of the
> > reasons I started on this whole project in the first place. We need a
> > toolchain that can be maintained as easily as possible.
> >
> > I started by disassembling the code, but then I realized that since
> > the original compiler was/is predictable, I could probably manually
> > turn the compiled ROF object back into something very much like the C
> > it was written in. I've got most of that done already, only one
> > function left to decode.
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 3:43 PM William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Jeff,
> > >
> > > I was thinking about the scanf/fscanf/sscanf being missing from the
> > > sources.  I went and did an rdump -a on both the MWC Clib.l and the
> > Kreider
> > > Clib.l and the relocatable shows that they both had the exact same Create
> > > date of Sep 17, 1983 23:43 ; Edition 4 ; Code 07f0 ; Data 0000 0084
> > >
> > > It looks like Carl may have decided that the MWC versions were good
> > enough
> > > so he just included them into his library.
> > >
> > > William Carlin, Jr.
> >
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