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From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning)
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Subject: CC65 released!
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Date: 15 Oct 89 15:37:00 GMT
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    Date: 11 Oct 89 13:40:58 GMT
    From: att!cbnewsc!wrw@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (wayne.r.wilcox)

    What is CC65? Is it a new C compiler like CC8? Can you give a summary of its
    features?

CC65 is indeed a C compiler for Atari 8-bitters.  It comes with an
assortment of tools; an assembler (that generates relocatable object
code, rather than fixed-address executables), a linker for linking
object files and libraries into executables, an object file librarian,
and some other random stuff.

The win (I think) of CC65 over the other freeware C compilers is that it
generates real machine code, rather than p-code which must then be
interpreted.  Granted it's not great machine code, but it's still much
easier to deal with than the totally opaque stuff that the other guys
use.  It's also trivial (well, not hard, anyway) to write
assembly-language subroutines for it.

For more doc on CC65 and how to use it, see the ARC file of
documentation in the Atari 8-bit program archives, in the cc65 subdir.