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- The library file "SMCPC.LBR" contains:
- 1) CPC.EXE, Caprock Systems' Small-C compiler for the PC;
- 2) CPCLIB.ASM, source to the run-time package;
- 3) CPCLIB.LIB, the run-time in object form;
- 4) HELLO.C, "the first program to write ... in all languages". A
- comment at the start of this file briefly explains how to use the
- compiler.
-
- You'll need ASM/MASM + LINK.
-
- This package is copyrighted 1982 by Caprock Systems. To the best of my
- knowledge, everything in it is in the public domain. Source to the
- compiler itself is not available, nor is any documentation; perhaps some
- fearless & enterprizing soul in this SIG would want to correct the latter
- deficiency.
-
- I have mixed feelings about encouraging beginning programmers to try to
- learn C through the use of this compiler. Hopefully, whatever frustration
- they might encounter in using it will be outweighed by an appreciation of
- those features of the full language which can be seen in this subset -
- support for separate compilation and modular design, the separation of I/O
- from the language, etc.
-
- Lastly, I remember when I had no tools available to me but this and BASIC.
- Case closed: this wasn't so bad after all.
- Gary Byers [74345,353]
- this and BWN03z
-