[A83] Re: Announcinga new TI-83 Development Suite


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[A83] Re: Announcinga new TI-83 Development Suite



Please take a look at the z88dk lib. No need to reinvent the wheel. There
are also other C compiler with halfway nice libs found on Ticalc.org

> Van: corey@acz.org
> 
> Well, you don't have to have 100% CRT compatability, you could 
> simply require a special format for certain commands and then link 
> in the ROM functions and call it.
> 
>> That would indeed be a library issue.  You'd have to rewrite the 
>> bulk of the  CRT (C RunTime library) to make it at all efficient, but 
>> you could strictly  get the compiler working with (I would imagine) very
>> little effort.  SDCC  also has an assembler, as well as allowing 
>> inline assembling, so you'd be  able to write the CRT it ASM for 
>> effieciencies sake.  This was how it worked  on the GB compiler, a huge
>> library written in ASM.  Without sometihng like  that, your programs 
>> would be laughably slow.
>>
>>> how would one modify it so that the compiler would make use of
>>> romcalls? would this be a library issue?