Going Crazt

[kenmartin-unix]

TheBorg,

I must be going Crazy. I got a few CP/M 'C' programs that just won't compile with any of your 'C' compilers.

One is copy.c, ed.c and stat.c:

copy.txt ed.txt stat.txt

The extensions where changed from C to TXT to allow for uploading.

Maybe I should throw in the towel and sit in my rocking chair...

Ken

[Xalior]

Not all C compilers are created equal. At-least two of those are written for (at a guess, based on the headers) the Amsterdam Compiler Kit -- which is a cross-compiler, not a CP/M native one.

It's very uncommon to get anything by the most simple or straight forward items of modern code and have them work on a randomly picked hosted CP/M C compiler - most CP/M C compilers were developed long before modern C standards came into practice.

[drawkula]

copy and stat build with ack. ed yields 150 lines of warnings and errors.

C2>copy
Syntax: copy [/uf] [<inputspec...>] <outputspec>
Options:
  F: overwrite output
  U: unbuffered
<inputspec> may contain wildcards. <outputspec> may be just a drive.

C2>█

stat's output looks plausible too.

(yeti@kumari:12)/home/wrk/runcpm/run/C/2$ cat Makefile 
all: COPY.COM ED.COM STAT.COM

COPY.COM: copy.c
        /opt/ack/bin/ack -mcpm -O6 $< -o $@

ED.COM: ed.c
        /opt/ack/bin/ack -mcpm -O6 $< -o $@

STAT.COM: stat.c
        /opt/ack/bin/ack -mcpm -O6 $< -o $@
(yeti@kumari:12)/home/wrk/runcpm/run/C/2$ █

[ratboy666]

Just peeked at copy.txt

The ONLY CP/M native C compiler that has any hope of this is - HiTech C. It may need the addition of definitions of things like  uint8_t, etc. 

Note that The ANSI standard was still 2 years in the future when this compiler was released!

But, on a quick read, it seems doable (that is, getting it working).

FredW

On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 07:24 -0800, kenmartin-unix wrote:

TheBorg, I must be going Crazy. I got a few CP/M 'C' programs that just won't compile with any of your 'C' compilers.unit One is copy.c, ed.c and stat.c: copy.txt ed.txt stat.txt The extensions where changed from C to TXT to allow for uploading. Maybe I should throw in the towel and sit in my rocking chair... Ken — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: @.***>

[MockbaTheBorg]

I have updated my CPM collection (link on the readme file) with these CPMish tools above. (among other things) COPY.COM seems to work fine under RUnCPM. QE.COM doesn't, as I extracted the executables from a KayproII image. The others seem to work fine.