Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!ericmcg
From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: C compilers
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Date: 13 Jan 91 20:50:04 GMT
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>> Basically, you are stuck with HyperC. You might consider rewriting the
>Linker
>> (no I don't have source for the linker), I have no idea how difficult this
>> would be, but there are likely a number of people that would be interested.
>
>Re-write the Linker??? Why in the world would anybody want (or need) to do
>that?? It has worked just fine for for every compile i have performed.

Rewriting the Linker is required to generate stand alone SYS applications
under prodos. HyperC assumes the OPSYS file to be present during execution and
links it in as a runtime library (soft links?). If OPSYS is not present, then
the linker must attach all of the functions normally provided by it.

Native compiles do not need the p-code interpreter, so this could be
discarded, but otherwise, most of OPSYS will be used by most applications.

Floating point is handled by SANE, I have no idea why they do not work under
native compiles. Have you tried the log.c example included on the /fp disk?
See if this works.

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