30 Jan
2017
30 Jan
'17
2:13 p.m.
On Sun, 29 Jan 2017, Clem Cole wrote:
That said, is you want a goos starting point the best
C compiler for the
8080 was the Leor Zolman's "Brain Damaged Software" C -- aka BDS C.
Which he has put in the public Domain:
http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html
Talk about brain-damaged software... BDS C is irretrievably broken, with
all sorts of things missing. I used to use Hi-Tech C for CP/M, but I
don't know whether they're still in business. It was a full ANSI C
compiler, with function prototypes, initialisation assignments, static
variables, etc.
As Henry Spencer once said, to be called a C compiler it ought to at least
be able to compile C...
(And as I've said on many occasions, the true test of a compiler is
whether it can compile itself.)
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."