djch@maths.bath.ac.uk (Dave Hutchinson) (01/28/91)
Could someone email me 1 what is the most up-to-date version of the sozobon C compiler and libraries 2 the name of any ftp archive site which has the current version. Many thanks David Hutchinson
tony@raid5.uucp (Tony Andrews) (01/29/91)
In article <1991Jan28.102546.5083@maths.bath.ac.uk> djch@maths.bath.ac.uk () writes: >Could someone email me >1 what is the most up-to-date version of the sozobon C compiler and libraries > >2 the name of any ftp archive site which has the current version. > >Many thanks > >David Hutchinson Here's a note from Hans in response to an earlier query... > Sozobon Questions: > > Is Sozobon still under development? Yes, very slowly. > Has it been ported to Minix, PC or the Amiga yet? It has been ported to Minix, and the result offered to Andy Tannenbaum, but he wasnt interested. It really needs someone to do a lot of support (not us!). There are several unofficial ports to the amiga. The problem here is that Commodore insists on restricting the header files. Without the header files the compiler is useless. We are not going to waste our time unless their attitude changes. The PC is a bitch. 2 people have started ports and given up. > Just what is it's current status? Works well under a TOS shell. Does not work under MINT. Comes with cc,hcc,jas,ld,make,ar,size,assembly level debugger, libc, gem library, new floating library, stevie. You probably will want to pick up a shell like Gulam to use with it. (Dont use shells that upcase args). Does not come with extensive documentation, support, etc. You can always get the latest full TOS release by sending $10 ($12 from overseas) made out to 'Tony Andrews' to Tony Andrews 4704 Berkshire Court Boulder, Colorado 80301 USA However, do not send us questions without also sending a STAMPED self-addressed envelope (if you want an answer). > Are the Sozobon lads still working on it. Johann is working on adding long external names and making it work on UNIX hosts (including those with the 'wrong' byte order). > Any chance of the ANSI standard becoming a reality? What is the purpose of ANSI besides making it possible for a perfectly good program to generate infinite useless error messages? Who is volunteering to produce an ANSI libc? > Is there a new version of Dales dLibs beyond 1.2? We havent seen one. Dale? > > Questions, questions! > > The source for 'jas' does not produce a working program (it produces object > files with only a header). As a result I can't fix the bugs. Top 1.2 was released with a bug which made it produce a bad 'jas'. A fix was posted later. If you need the latest fixed release, see above. Unfortunately, most bulletin boards and archive sites have NOT put in the fixes. Johann Ruegg Sozobon Ltd. -- Tony Andrews uunet!dunike!onecom!raid5!tony Array Technology Corp. 4775 Walnut St., Suite B Boulder, Colorado 80301 USA
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (02/06/91)
>>>>> In message <1991Jan29.150844.13336@raid5.uucp>, tony@raid5.uucp (Tony Andrews) (TA) writes: TA> In article <1991Jan28.102546.5083@maths.bath.ac.uk> djch@maths.bath.ac.uk () writes: >Could someone email me >1 what is the most up-to-date version of the sozobon C compiler and libraries > >2 the name of any ftp archive site which has the current version. > > > The source for 'jas' does not produce a working program (it produces object > files with only a header). As a result I can't fix the bugs. TA> Top 1.2 was released with a bug which made it produce a bad 'jas'. A fix TA> was posted later. If you need the latest fixed release, see above. TA> Unfortunately, most bulletin boards and archive sites have NOT put in the TA> fixes. I have put a fixed version in our archive. It has all fixes that I have seen on the net + I fixed the assembler for the stop instruction (I don't think that many people use this). The compiler is now able to compile itself with -O. I also made a small change to make to have it override macro values by command line arguments of the form MACRO=value. The package contains binaries, sources of the compiler and tools, h files and binaries of dlibs, and gemfast. The sources of dlibs and gemfast libraries are not includes, as they are somewhere else in the archive. Also the libraries don't have the latest patches, but once you have the compiler that isn't hard to do. How to get sozobon.zoo from the archive at Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University: NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu. Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET usually works. by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between about 20.00 and 0900 UTC). ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] user name: anonymous or ftp password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu) cd /pub don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive, compressed or in any other way contains binary data. get ATARI-ST/lang/sozobon.zoo by mail-server: send the following message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server): begin path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS) send ATARI-ST/lang/sozobon.zoo end NOTE: *** PLEASE USE VALID INTERNET ADDRESSES IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT USE ADDRESSES WITH ! and @ MIXED !!!! BITNETTERS USE USER@HOST.BITNET *** The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you first issue the request: send HELP -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')