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Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update

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My 2 cents...

First off, since you're an assembly guy, don't look at the generated 
code unless you have a 5-gallon barf bucket within spitting distance.

ORCA/C is the only choide for IIgs C programming. Many of the 
complaints are based on older versions (1.x and even 2.0) 2.1+ are good 
enough. IIgs/OMF support is built in (dynamic segments, GS/OS calls, 
toolbox calls, OMF linker, etc).

WDC C: Now available for free (if you don't mind giving them your email 
address).  Windows only but it runs fine with wine on OS X (and 
presumably linux).  I guess it was originally known as Zardos C and 
used for SNES development. It has a lot of features for embedded 
development but no IIgs support whatsoever - if you want to make a 
toolbox or GS/OS call, you need to use inline assembly. Generated code 
is about on par with ORCA/C but I haven't compared it extensively.

If you want to live on the edge, I wrote a linker that links the 
WDC/Zardos object files into an OMF executable - 
https://github.com/ksherlock/wdc-utils .

TCC: My recollection is TCC was forked to add an ARM back end and that 
was forked to add a 65816 back end based on emulating an ARM.

On 2017-11-11 05:42:18 +0000, John Brooks said:

> 
> Has anyone compared the various 65816 C compilers (Orca, WDC, TCC)?
> 
> I am wondering what C compilers people are using, and the pros & cons of each.
> 
> -JB
> @JBrooksBSI

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  Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Anthony Ortiz <anthonypaulo@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 16:58 -0700
    Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2017-10-24 00:01 +0000
      Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 22:46 -0500
    Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2017-10-24 01:55 -0400
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      Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Anthony Ortiz <anthonypaulo@gmail.com> - 2017-11-03 14:23 -0700
        Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com> - 2017-11-03 18:12 -0500
          Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Anthony Ortiz <anthonypaulo@gmail.com> - 2017-11-03 16:28 -0700
            Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com> - 2017-11-03 19:00 -0500
              Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Anthony Ortiz <anthonypaulo@gmail.com> - 2017-11-03 17:11 -0700
                Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com> - 2017-11-03 20:21 -0500
                Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Kelvin Sherlock <kelvin@pro-kegs.uucp> - 2017-11-03 23:18 -0400
              Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update John Brooks <jbrooks@blueshiftinc.com> - 2017-11-10 21:42 -0800
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                Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update John Brooks <jbrooks@blueshiftinc.com> - 2017-11-12 11:58 -0800
                Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Anthony Ortiz <anthonypaulo@gmail.com> - 2017-11-12 13:01 -0800
                Re: ORCA/C 2.2.0 B1 update Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com> - 2017-11-12 18:38 -0600
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