Re: 80386 C compiler

"Keith Thompson" <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote in message
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True, but I don't know of anyone who's interested in a C 90 compiler
with this kind of extension.  Paul Edwards has made it clear he's only
interested in unextended C90, and anyone else can just use a more modern
compiler.

While not a "compiler" per se, there is one extension to
C90 I might add, which is to have formal names like:

ESC_CHAR '\x1b'
ESC_CHAR_STR "\x1b"

that would allow me to support ASCII and EBCDIC in
my "starter suite".

Microemacs and msged need them.

I probably need names for the control keys too for microemacs.

I'll need to revisit the code to be sure.

But that's what my expectations are for a minimal close-to-C90
standard are - something that will allow a portable implementation
of the basic tools.

It wasn't obvious to me when I started that that was even possible.

Note that this assumes the pre-existence of something like a
BIOS (similar to UEFI), which I call a pseudo-bios. That is
not expected to be portable.

And although I am not expecting the C library to be portable,
to my surprise it is in fact portable other than setjmp/longjmp.

BFN. Paul.