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Article #394Re: How close to ALCYON C is TOS?
From: Landon Dyer
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1986 05:19
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1986 05:19
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How far is up? Why change a perfectly good object code format? You think reinventing the wheel is fun, maybe? Executable file loaders are not hard to write. The GEMDOS C compiler is the Alcyon C compiler (a couple of centuries old -- ask DRI why they haven't released any new versions in the last couple years) -- the SAME compiler that also runs on CP/M-68K. Only the changes needed to make it run on the ST were made. The only differences between CP/M-68K and GEMDOS binary files are: o The relocation information is compressed (say, to about 5% of the total file size, on the average) under GEMDOS. (Those of you familiar with CP/M-68K are nodding your heads right now). o There are no "absolute" files under GEMDOS (thank God). You could do ST development under CP/M-68K, if you wanted to. In fact, that's what Atari did in the early days of the project. -Landon "If business is war, then I'm a prisoner of business!"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!orsvax1!pyrnj!caip!lll-crg!lll-lcc!vecpyr!atari!dyer From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: How close to ALCYON C is TOS? Message-ID: <183@atari.UUcp> Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 00:19:04 EST Article-I.D.: atari.183 Posted: Tue Apr 15 00:19:04 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Apr-86 04:27:00 EST References: <8604121902.AA24030@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 25